June 9, 2005 | Headlines, TTD
(The Transportation Trades Department issued the following news release on June 8.) WASHINGTON — The following statement was issued today by Edward Wytkind, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), in response to an audit by the U.S....
May 26, 2005 | Headlines, TTD
(The Transportation Trades Department issued the following news release on May 25.) WASHINGTON — The freight railroad industry paints a highly selective and distorted picture of its own safety record, Edward Wytkind, President of the AFL-CIO’s...
May 20, 2005 | Headlines, TTD
(The Transportation Trades Department issued the following news release on May 19.) WASHINGTON — Responding to the Bush Administration’s refusal to issue security rules for the foreign repair of U.S. aircraft, the bipartisan leadership of the Senate...
March 11, 2005 | Headlines, TTD
(The TTD issued the following news release on March 10.) WASHINGTON — Edward Wytkind, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, issued the following statement today in reaction to U.S. House passage of the Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy...
December 14, 2004 | Headlines, National Mediation Board, TTD
(The Transportation Trades Dept., AFL-CIO, circulated the following news release on December 13.) WASHINGTON — Momentum is growing to stop a rail industry plan to suppress rail workers from speaking out on critical issues of working conditions, safety, and pay,...
December 3, 2004 | Headlines, Teamsters, TTD
(Bloomberg News distributed the following article on December 2.) OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific Corp. should be denied a request to end U.S. testing of equipment on international cargo from Mexico after four people died in crashes in Texas in the past year,...
October 4, 2004 | Headlines, TTD
(The TTD issued the following news release on October 4.) WASHINGTON — In response to a Bush administration move to suppress rail workers from speaking out on critical issues of working conditions, safety, and pay, AFL-CIO rail unions and their members have...
September 28, 2004 | Headlines, TTD
(The TTD issued the following news release on September 28.) WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is trying to suppress rail workers from using their rights to file grievances on critical issues like working conditions, safety, and pay. Under the thin...
August 9, 2004 | Headlines, Railroad Security, TTD
(The TTD issued the following on August 9.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — “The Bush administration has an all talk, no action approach to transportation security, a policy of chronic inaction that is failing to protect the traveling public, workers, and homeland...
August 6, 2004 | Headlines, TTD
(The BMWE issued the following news release on August 4.) SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — On Monday, August 2, 2004, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and the Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the Department of Labor. The suit...
