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Advice from a member’s spouse

August 25, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Vivian Porretto, spouse of UTU member John Porretto (Local 597, Des Planes, Ill.), sent the following unsolicited comment to the International after reviewing with her husband the voting materials on the [...]

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National Rail Contract: Health care myths

August 24, 2011 The International has received questions regarding the health care provisions contained in the National Rail Contract. The health care insurance plan provided by the National Rail Contract already provides one of the best benefits packages available – and the new contract pro [...]

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National Rail Contract: Facts to consider

August 19, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Here are facts to consider when voting on the National Rail Contract: * The UTU negotiated a 17 percent general wage increase – 18.24 percent compounded — or more than 3 percent annually. * Compare [...]

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Negotiators speak out on national rail contract

August 16, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Former International President Tom DuBose(1991-1995) Having served as a member and as chairperson of UTU national negotiating committees, and as a UTU International officer for 28 years, I found that the [...]

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National rail contract delivers ‘more, now’

July 25, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. AFL founder Samuel Gompers said the objective of labor is, “more, now.” Our national rail agreement fulfills that objective. In an economic environment that has our brothers and sisters in other industrie [...]

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Tentative national agreement slide show

July 18, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Members of the UTU National Rail Contract Negotiating Committee, assisted by International officers and general chairpersons, are barnstorming the nation, holding face-to-face meetings with members to exp [...]

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Record pay boost in UTU tentative rail pact

June 2, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. A 17 percent pay increase, retention of the $200 monthly cap on health care cost-sharing, FRA certification pay, a faster process for new hires to reach full pay rates, and no rollback of the January 2011 [...]

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UTU, rails in tentative new five-year agreement

April 29, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. A tentative new five-year national rail agreement covering wages, benefits and working conditions has been reached between the UTU and the National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC). The tentati [...]

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NMB officials join national labor talks

March 30, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. In an effort to facilitate a new national rail agreement between the UTU and most of the nation’s railroads, two members of the National Mediation Board attended the ninth negotiating session betwee [...]

Mid-January national negotiations update

January 17, 2011 Following an eighth negotiating session in mid-January with the National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC), UTU International President Mike Futhey said, “We continue to make progress through interest-based bargaining toward developing a common framework recog [...]