November 15, 2022 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, PSR, TTD
(Source: Trains Magazine, November 14, 2022) A rail labor union coalition has proposed that Congress require federal regulators to conduct an annual “stress test” that would determine whether the Class I railroads have enough people, equipment, and infrastructure...
November 15, 2022 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, PSR, TTD
(Source: Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, press release, November 14, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation’s largest transportation labor federation, the Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO, convened 37 unions to set the federation’s annual...
August 16, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB, TTD
(Source: Freight Waves, August 15, 2022) Surface Transportation Board Chairman Marty Oberman expressed doubt that the four major U.S. Class I railroads could ramp up rail service and reach the service targets they laid out by December. Full story: Freight...
August 9, 2022 | COVID, Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, PSR, TTD
(Source: People’s World, August 8, 2022) As the nation’s railroad worker unions presented their details for a new contract with the freight railroads to a Presidential Emergency Board, rank-and-file workers, upset with no contract since before the coronavirus...
July 28, 2022 | 2-man Crews, AFL-CIO, FRA, Headlines, TTD
Rail unions welcome FRA’s two-person crew rule (Source: Press release from the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, July 27, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Greg Regan, President of the Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO, released the following...
July 28, 2022 | 2-man Crews, FRA, Headlines, TTD
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 27, 2022) The Federal Railroad Administration has released its long-anticipated rule proposal to require two-person crews for trains, drawing predictable, and strong, reactions from railroads (which are opposed), and unions (which are in...
July 15, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2019, News, TTD
Editor’s Note: The following is a press release from Greg Regan, President of the Transportation Trades Department (TTD) regarding President Biden’s appointment of a Presidential Emergency Board to investigate the national rail contract dispute. RAIL...
July 1, 2022 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, PSR, STB, TTD
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 30, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The leader of a federation of rail and other unions has written a group of U.S. senators asking that Congress give the Surface Transportation Board more power to enforce railroads’ common-carrier obligations...
June 22, 2022 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, TTD, UP
(Source: Freight Waves, June 22, 2022) The debate about how to manage visual inspections in the face of advances in safety technology continues. This time it’s railroad carmen defending the importance of visual inspections for brake testing and maintenance. Full...
May 18, 2022 | AFL-CIO, BNSF, Headlines, Hi-Viz, PSR, TTD
(Source: Montana Free Press, May 17, 2022) Montana’s largest railroad company is making changes to a controversial new employee attendance policy after receiving pushback from railroaders and unions. But even with the changes, labor officials remain unimpressed and...
