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...
October 19, 2021 | News, Unions, UP
CLEVELAND, October 15, 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) are jointly taking on Union Pacific Railroad...
October 19, 2021 | Headlines, Unions, UP
(Source: Progressive Railroading, October 18, 2021) Union Pacific Railroad on Oct. 15 filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court after receiving communications from three unions protesting the Class I’s vaccination mandate. The unions involved are the...
October 7, 2021 | Headlines, Organizing, Unions, War on Workers
(Source: International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) press release, October 4, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a victory for the IAM and transportation union members across the country, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear two cases...
September 22, 2021 | Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2019, News, Unions
September 22, 2021 — The Rail Unions comprising the Coordinated Bargaining Coalition (CBC), negotiating together in the current round of National Negotiations, have issued the following statement: “As we advised in January of 2021, the CBC and the nation’s rail...
August 26, 2021 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Unions
(Source: www.nj.com, August 26, 2021) NEWARK, N.J. — NJ Transit officials approved a new contract Wednesday night with nine unions representing bus drivers and mechanics that was completed before the old agreements expired. Full story:...
August 18, 2021 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Unions
(Source: WHYY, August 17, 2021) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — SEPTA and the union that represents thousands of transit workers have begun negotiating a new contract. Transport Workers Union Local 234 wants the new contract to acknowledge its members as frontline workers who...
August 4, 2021 | Headlines, Unions, War on Workers
(Source: Jurist, August 3, 2021) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) hearing officer recommended on Monday that employees at an Amazon plant in Bessemer, Alabama, hold a second election due to interference and intimidation by the retail giant....
July 30, 2021 | Headlines, Unions
(Source: Moneywatch, July 27, 2021) TOPEKA, Kan. — Hundreds of Frito-Lay employees are back on the job this week after ratifying a new union contract that guarantees them one day off a week. Full story: CBS News
