December 13, 2019 | FRA, Headlines, War on Workers
(Source: Safety and Health Magazine, December 12, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to a petition for rulemaking, the Federal Railroad Administration is seeking to further delay by 16 months the implementation dates of its proposed Training, Qualification, and...
December 12, 2019 | Amtrak, Headlines, War on Workers
(Source: Gazette-Mail, December 10, 2019) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — For the 2018-19 federal fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, ridership on the thrice-weekly Cardinal increased from 96,710 passengers in 2017-18 to 108,935 riders in 2018-19, with the restoration of the...
November 8, 2019 | Headlines, Unions, War on Workers
(Source: Policy Statement by the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department (TTD), October 29, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since the first U.S. freight trains departed from Baltimore nearly 200 years ago, the freight rail industry has served as the backbone of domestic...
November 7, 2019 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: Column by Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa published in the Detroit News, November 6, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 2020 presidential election, now less than a year away, is arriving at a key moment in U.S. history. Workers, long the backbone of this...
October 15, 2019 | Headlines, UP, War on Workers
(Source: Television KCTV, October 15, 2019) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Union Pacific is switching their operations from Kansas City, Missouri, to Kansas City, Kansas, which will cut jobs. The union says the move will eliminate 200 jobs, but the company also said that some...
October 7, 2019 | Headlines, War on Workers
(Source: Reuters, October 7, 2019) NEW YORK — General Electric said on Monday it was freezing pension plans for about 20,000 U.S. employees with salaried benefits, as the industrial conglomerate makes another drastic move to cut debt and reduce its pension deficit by...
October 4, 2019 | 2-man Crews, Headlines, War on Workers
(Source: Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers—Transportation Division (SMART TD) press release, October 3, 2019) NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio — Today, the nation’s Class I rail carriers, along with a few other railroads, filed suit in federal district court in the...
October 3, 2019 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: Column by Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa published by the Detroit News, October 2, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A U.S. House committee last week took a much-needed step towards empowering workers by approving legislation that would expand their right...
October 1, 2019 | Headlines, War on Workers
(Source: Roanoke Times, September 30, 2019) ROANOKE, Va. — FreightCar America plans to build railcars in Mexico after it ceases operations in Roanoke, a news release said. FreightCar will close the company’s Roanoke plant by Nov. 11, ending the jobs of about 200...
September 27, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, War on Workers
(Source: West Virginia Public Radio, September 26, 2019) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The nearly two-month blockade of a Kentucky railroad track is coming to an end as unpaid coal miners end their protest in order to take new jobs, start classes, or move away from their...
