June 5, 2023 | News, Paid Sick Leave, UP
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, June 5 — Earlier today, the BLET announced that it has reached a paid sick leave agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad. The General Chairmen involved in negotiating the new deal have prepared the following Fact Sheet to address potential...
June 5, 2023 | News, Paid Sick Leave, UP
Union Pacific’s locomotive engineers will now have up to seven days paid in the event of illness OMAHA, June 5 — Union Pacific Railroad reached an agreement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) to provide paid sick leave to the...
June 2, 2023 | Headlines, STB, UP
(Source: Surface Transportation Board press release, May 31, 2023) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Surface Transportation Board’s Office of Environmental Analysis (OEA) today issued a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed construction of a new rail line in Mesa,...
May 31, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 30, 2023) Union Pacific will launch international intermodal service between Port Houston and five cities beginning on Thursday, a move that follows a similar announcement from BNSF Railway just two weeks ago. Full story: Trains...
May 26, 2023 | Headlines, UP
(Source: Associated Press, May 24, 2023) A pilot project in the Kansas City area showed that the 11/4 work-rest schedule helped reduce the number of days engineers took off at the last minute and kept some engineers from walking away from the railroad. Full story:...
May 26, 2023 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, Lawsuit, Mexico, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 25, 2023) Union Pacific is suing the Surface Transportation Board because the agency’s approval of the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger didn’t fully protect cross-border competition at the Laredo, Texas, gateway or address the...
May 23, 2023 | Headlines, UP
(Source: Palestine Herald-Press, May 16, 2023) Palestine received a win in its battle against Union Pacific Monday, May 15. District Court Judge Michael Davis, of the 369th Judicial District Court in Cherokee County sitting as the 2nd District Court, ruled in favor of...
May 22, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, Railroad Security, Shippers, UP
(Source: Cowboy State Daily, May 18, 2023) A railcar carrying 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in explosives at Wyoming coal mines, left Cheyenne for California on April 12. Two weeks later, the chemical was discovered missing from the railcar and no...
May 15, 2023 | FRA, Headlines, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 12, 2023) The Federal Railroad Administration issued a safety advisory this week in the aftermath of an April collision and derailment on Union Pacific that involved a misaligned hand-throw switch. Full story: Trains...
