Category: National Rail Contract
We’d better care about Clinton v. Trump on transportation
The Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, highlights the stark difference in how Clinton and Trump stand on transportation issues, underscoring how the outcome of this election may profoundly impact the health and future of transportation unions and all working fam [...]National railroad agreement provides wage increase
Railroad members covered under the provisions of the Sept. 16, 2011, national railroad agreement received a three percent general wage increase, effective July 1, 2013. The links below show the national agreement pay rates for all classes of service and overtime tables for ya [...]
Many will see $2 reduction in health care contribution
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Some 38,000 UTU members covered under the national rail contract will see a $2 reduction in their monthly health care contribution effective July 1 and continuing through June 30, 2016. Health care insura [...]Others settling as PEB recommended
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The UTU International is receiving questions from members regarding recommendations of Presidential Emergency Board 243, which was created under provisions of the Railway Labor Act after talks between oth [...]Obama names PEB to investigate rail labor dispute
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON — A five-member Presidential Emergency Board was appointed by President Obama Oct. 6 to investigate and make non-binding recommendations in a dispute between 11 rail labor unions and the [...]New rail rate tables now posted online
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The standard basic daily and mileage rates of pay negotiated under the new national rail contract are now available at smart-union.org/td/. The rate tables pertain to employees in the crafts of conductor, [...]National rail contract pay jump effective Sept. 16
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The new national rail contract and its increased rates of pay become effective Sept. 16. Sept. 16 is also the trigger date from which the carriers are pledged to make retroactive wage payments within 60 d [...]
National rail contract ratified
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. A new national rail contract, delivering a 17 percent wage increase over 60 months (18.24 percent when compounded), a 78-month cap on health care insurance contributions, plus improvements in health care [...]