May 1, 2009 | Headlines, Unions
(The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division issued the following on April 28, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED), Midwest System Federation membership finalized ratification of its Tentative Agreement...
April 28, 2009 | Headlines, Unions
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Sam Hananel on April 26, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama has appointed a key union activist as senior adviser to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, another sign of the influence that organized labor...
March 17, 2009 | Headlines, Unions
(The following story by Tom Reese and Paul Rubillo appeared at Forbes.com on March 16, 2009.) NEW YORK — Shares of Union Pacific are up 5% after an analyst at Merrill Lynch raised the railroad company from a “neutral” rating to “buy.” The...
March 9, 2009 | Headlines, Unions
(The following appeared on the Advocate website on March 9, 2009.) BATON ROUGE, La. — Work crews on Sunday removed a railroad tank car carrying molten sulfur and rebuilt a train trestle at Plaquemine — a day after a southbound Union Pacific freight train derailed,...
February 6, 2009 | Headlines, Unions
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Beth DeFalco on February 5, 2009.) TRENTON, N.J. — Even a 10-foot inflatable rat has free speech rights in New Jersey, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday. In a case that pitted an International...
February 6, 2009 | Headlines, Unions
(The following story by Mark Schoeff Jr. appeared at Workforce.com on February 6, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Hilda Solis will have to wait a while longer for her nomination as the next secretary of labor to come before the full Senate after a committee postponed...
February 6, 2009 | Headlines, Unions
(The following story by Edmund L. Andrews appeared on the New York Times website on February 6, 2009.) WASHINGTON — The country moved into its second year of uninterrupted job losses last month, with companies shedding another 598,000 jobs and the unemployment rate...
February 3, 2009 | Headlines, Unions
(Bloomberg News circulated the following on January 30, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama said the state of the U.S. economy is “a continuing disaster” for families and said urgent action is needed to revive growth. The president cited a Commerce...
February 3, 2009 | Headlines, Unions
(The following story by Joe Davidson appeared on the Washington Post website on February 3, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — After being shut out for eight years, the leaders of federal employee unions felt good to be among those invited into the fold by the new...
January 29, 2009 | Headlines, Unions
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Sam Hananel on January 28, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid widening unemployment, home foreclosures and credit woes, union membership jumped to 12.4 percent of the work force last year. The Bureau of Labor...
