March 7, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, Unions
(Source: Railway Age, March 1, 2022) NEW YORK — The BMWED/SMART-Mechanical Division bargaining coalition late last month petitioned the National Mediation Board (NMB) for a proffer of arbitration, requesting to be released from further mediation sessions with the...
January 24, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2019, News, Unions
The Coordinated Bargaining Coalition (CBC) released the following statement on January 24, 2022: After more than two years of bargaining with the major U.S. Class 1 railroads, discussions completely stalled last week.Accordingly, pursuant to the terms and conditions...
December 21, 2021 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, December 20, 2021) PHILADELPHIA — After longtime president of Transport Workers Union Local 234 Willie Brown stepped down, his second-in-command Brian Pollitt took over as the leader of the SEPTA’s largest labor union. Full story:...
December 15, 2021 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Axios Philadelphia, December 15, 2021) PHILADELPHIA — Willie Brown has stepped down as president of the Transport Workers Union Local 234 this week. Full story: Axios Philadelphia
December 13, 2021 | Headlines, Unions
(Source: CNBC, December 9, 2021) NEW YORK — After a monthslong battle, Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New York, supported efforts to unionize at least one cafe. The result marks the first successful attempt in the U.S. at unionizing within the giant coffee chain since...
November 9, 2021 | Commuter Rail, Contract Agreement, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, November 9, 2021) PHILADELPHIA — Members of the union representing workers in the city transit division have ratified a two-year contract with SEPTA that includes raises, a hazard bonus for working during the pandemic, and parental...
November 1, 2021 | News, NS, Unions
On October 29, 2021, the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD) and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) have responded to the suit Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)...
October 29, 2021 | Commuter Rail, Contract Agreement, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, October 29, 2021) PHILADELPHIA — Members of Transport Workers Local 234 would get 3% annual raises in each of the two years of the tentative contract, as well as a one-time pandemic hazard bonus of one dollar for each hour worked...
October 26, 2021 | Health & Welfare, News, Unions
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 25 — An arbitrator has rejected the railroad industry’s attempt to utilize a never-before-used contract clause imposed by Congress 30 years ago to reduce the healthcare networks available to over 250,000 railroad workers and family members on...
October 22, 2021 | Headlines, Unions, UP
(Source: Associated Press, October 20, 2021) OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific and its labor unions are suing each other to determine whether the railroad has the authority to require its employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. Full story: Associated...
