April 22, 2014 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Newsday, April 21, 2014) NEW YORK — The MTA put a new offer on the table Monday in its heated contract dispute with 5,800 Long Island Rail Road union workers threatening to strike this summer. Full story: Newsday
February 19, 2014 | Headlines, Unions, War on Workers
(Source: Alter Net, February 17, 2014) NEW YORK — Union-busters mounted a coordinated campaign, even telling Tennesseans that the union wanted to take their guns. Full story: Alter Net
November 18, 2013 | Headlines, Unions, War on Workers
(Source: The Stand, November 14, 2013) SEATTLE — By a 2-to-1 margin, members of Machinists (IAM) District Council 751 who work at Boeing in Washington state voted Wednesday to reject the company’s proposed 8-year contract extension that eliminated workers’ pensions,...
November 6, 2013 | Headlines, Unions, War on Workers
(Source: Associated Press, November 5, 2013) CHICAGO — Across the middle of the country, organized labor has taken one hit after another in places that were once union strongholds: Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana, where workers lost bargaining power and saw...
November 4, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Chicago Tribune, November 2, 2013) CHICAGO — The proposed pact, awaiting approval from about 337 clerical workers and ticket agents belonging to the Transportation Communications Union, is similar to a federally mediated pact that Metra negotiated with the...
November 1, 2013 | CSX, Headlines, Unions
(Source: CSX press release, October 31, 2013) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation Inc. has signed a landmark agreement with four labor unions that sets new standards of quality and productivity at the company’s Huntington (W.Va.) Locomotive Shop. The agreement...
October 30, 2013 | Headlines, Short Line, Unions
(Source: AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department (TTD) press release, October 29, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) today endorsed a federal mandate that requires at least a two-person crew on U.S. freight trains....
October 23, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Unions
(Source: San Francisco Chronicle, October 22, 2013) SAN FRANCISCO — BART workers scored 15.4 percent in raises in the four-year deal that settled the four-day strike late Monday night. The raises, which are 3.4 percent higher than BART management proposed Thursday in...
October 22, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Transportation Communications Union/IAM website, October 18, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — On October 18, the National Mediation Board issued proffers of arbitration to all crafts represented by TCU on the Long Island Railroad, as well as to every other union on...
October 21, 2013 | Headlines, Unions
(Source: Journal of Commerce, October 18, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — International Longshoremen’s Association workers agreed Friday to return to work for 90 days while negotiators work on a local contract that triggered a three-day strike this week at the Port of...
