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...
May 18, 2022 | AFL-CIO, BNSF, Headlines, Hi-Viz, PSR, TTD
(Source: Freight Waves, May 17, 2022) Two unions are still critical of BNSF’s controversial attendance policy, saying recent adjustments aren’t enough to overcome its shortcomings. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) criticized recent changes,...
April 13, 2022 | AFL-CIO, News, PSR, STB, TTD
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, April 13 — In an April 11 letter, the President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), called upon the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to address deteriorating service quality provided by U.S. Class I railroads. Deterioration of...
April 7, 2022 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, PSR, TTD
(Source: Press release from the Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO, April 5, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Leaders from 30 transportation labor organizations gathered in Washington, D.C. yesterday to outline a robust legislative and regulatory agenda for...
April 7, 2022 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, PSR, TTD
(Source: Freight Waves, April 5, 2022) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO is urging federal agencies to rein in Class I railroads’ attendance policies, which TTD says force union employees to work long hours without adequate...
April 6, 2022 | AFL-CIO, BNSF, News, SMART-TD, TTD, Unions
CLEVELAND, Ohio (April 6) — The nation’s two largest railroad unions continue to gather allies and momentum as they oppose the imposition of precision scheduled railroading (PSR) tactics by Class I carriers that put safety and the health and lives of working people at...
