December 7, 2007 | Headlines, Unions
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on December 6.) Four United Transportation Union (UTU) members — including a union vice president — recently filed a lawsuit in a U.S. district court in East St. Louis, Ill., seeking to prevent the UTU...
August 7, 2007 | Headlines, Unions
(The following report by Bertrand Benoit appeared on the Financial Times website on August 6.) BERLIN — Germany’s national railway operator is steeling itself for its toughest industrial action for 15 years after members of a rebel engine drivers’ union voted...
July 30, 2007 | Headlines, Unions
(The following report appeared on the Baltimore Sun website on July 28.) BALTIMORE — A former treasurer for a railroad workers union will spend six months in prison and six months on home confinement after pleading guilty to embezzling $45,000 from the organization, a...
July 18, 2007 | Contract Agreement, Headlines, Unions
(The National Carriers Conference Committee issued the following on July 17.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the help of National Mediation Board Mediator Ernie DuBester, the nation’s major freight railroads reached a tentative agreement Tuesday with five rail labor...
July 17, 2007 | Headlines, Unions
(The Associated Press circulated the following by Alex Veiga on July 17.) LOS ANGELES — A union representing clerks at the nation’s largest port complex submitted a revised contract proposal to employers on Monday that one labor official hoped would lead to a...
July 13, 2007 | Headlines, Unions
(The National Mediation Board issued the following on July 13.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Mediation Board (NMB) is pleased to announce that a tentative collective bargaining agreement was reached on June 19, 2007, between the New Jersey Transit and two unions...
July 12, 2007 | Headlines, Short Line, Unions
(The Associated Press circulated the following on July 11.) WORCESTER, Mass. — The Providence and Worcester Railroad Company reaches an 8-year contract agreement with the union representing its maintenance workers. The deal covers employees in the Brotherhood of...
January 26, 2007 | Headlines, Unions
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Will Lester on January 25.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number of wage and salary workers who were union members dropped to 12 percent of the work force last year, the lowest percentage since the government started...
August 4, 2006 | Headlines, Unions
(The following report appeared at CNN.com on August 4.) NEW YORK — WakeupWalmart.com, backed by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, has launched a nationwide bus tour to make its case against Wal-Mart’s low wages and restrictive employee...
August 4, 2006 | Headlines, Unions
(The following report appeared at CNN.com on August 4.) NEW YORK — WakeupWalmart.com, backed by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, has launched a nationwide bus tour to make its case against Wal-Mart’s low wages and restrictive employee...
