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...
October 21, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Reuters, October 21, 2013) SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco faced another day without its commuter rail system on Sunday with no talks scheduled to resolve the strike, and vigils were held for two workers killed in a track accident. The strike against the Bay...
October 18, 2013 | Headlines, Unions, War on Workers
(Source: Journal of Commerce, October 17, 2013) BALTIMORE, Md. — A longshoremen’s strike that has idled the Port of Baltimore continued into its second day. According to the Journal of Commerce, members of International Longshoremen’s Association Local 333 struck on...
October 18, 2013 | Headlines, Unions, War on Workers
(Source: Associated Press, October 18, 2013) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — People in the San Francisco Bay area faced a frustrating Friday commute as workers for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) walked off the job for the second time in four months. Representatives of the...
October 17, 2013 | Headlines, Unions
(Source: Journal of Commerce, October 16, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A strike by members of the International Longshoremen’s Association closed the Port of Baltimore on October 16. According to a report from the Journal of Commerce, the strike began after members...
