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Funeral services set for slain LACMTA bus driver

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Funeral services have been set for Alan Thomas, 51, a bus driver for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and member of Local 1563, who was murdered aboard his bus May 20 by a lone [...]

Memorial service for former Local 318 officer Hagen

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. A memorial service will be held May 7 at 1 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Susquehanna Depot, Pa., for retired former Local 318 Legislative Rep. Robert A. Hagen, who died April 16. The address of the [...]

Geraldine Turner, mother of VP Doyle, dies

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Geraldine “Jerri” Turner, 78, of Flatwoods, Ky., mother of Alternate Vice President and CSX General Chairperson Doyle Turner, died April 11 at the Community Hospice Care Center in Ashland, Ky. She was bor [...]

Former Canadian officer Dennis Schweitzer dies

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Dennis J. Schweitzer, former chairperson of the UTU’s Canadian Legislative Board and the Ontario Provincial Legislative Board, died April 4. A member of the former UTU Local 472 at Windsor, Ontario, Schwe [...]

Ken Knorr, longtime local official, dies

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. UTU local and International officer Kenneth L. Knorr, 58, died Jan. 20. Knorr was a member of Local 1031, Savannah, Ga. He hired on with the Seaboard Coast Line, now part of CSX, in 1977. He served in a v [...]

BNSF worker dies in Texas yard accident

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. AMARILLO, Texas – A BNSF maintenance-of-way employee was killed here Jan. 9 after being struck by a rail car, according to media reports. One report said the accident occurred as a rail grinder was being [...]