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Bus rep victory is UTU’s 23rd in 41 months

June 13, 2011 PERRIS, Calif. – Bus drivers and mechanics of Southland Transit here have voted “UTU, yes” by an almost four-to-one margin. This is the 23rd organizing victory – air, bus and rail — for the UTU since January 2008, an average of almost one new property organized every se [...]

Tags England, GO 20, Hubbell, Local 1496, Local 23, Miller, Montesino, Morr, organizing, Southland Transit

Yes, this is www.utu.org

June 11, 2011 This is the new United Transportation Union official website. We’ve changed our look. This new website design responds to member requests for greater emphasis on materials and news of interest to UTU members. To the right is an addition members told us is essential: a members [...]

Tags new website, United Transportation Union, UTU, website

Yard-safety workshop a life, limbs, careers saver

June 10, 2011 Working in a rail yard puts life, limbs and career at risk more than any other job. Members attending UTU regional meetings in San Antonio and New York have access to a yard-safety workshop – conducted in partnership with the Federal Railroad Administration’s risk-reduction [...]

Tags Federal Railroad Administration, FRA, regional meetings, SOFA, yard safety

Preserving Medicare: We have a role to play

June 9, 2011 Would you accept a job paying $1 million to count out $2 billion in $1 bills? Think again, because working a 40-hour week and counting out $1 per second, you would require 266 years to count out the $2 billion total. Now that you have an idea how much $2 billion is, consider [...]

Tags fraud, Medicare, Medicare Summary Notices, Palmetto, railroad medicare

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UTU, TRRA seek anti-terrorist training grant

June 8, 2011 The UTU and the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (TRRA) are jointly seeking an anti-terrorist security grant from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If the grant is approved — with a DHS decision expected in August — the UTU and TRRA will collabo [...]

Tags Amtrak, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Feltmeyer, Futhey, grants, St. Louis, Terminal Railroad Association, terrorist

BNSF, UP target of price-fixing lawsuit

June 8, 2011 A mining and natural resources company, Oxbow Carbon and Minerals, has filed an antitrust suit against BNSF and Union Pacific, alleging the railroads have illegally fixed freight rates, in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, “to gouge customers.” Oxbow mines and ships coa [...]

Tags AAR, American Shortline and Regional Railroad Association, antitrust, Association of American Railroads, BNSF, Koch, Kohl, lawsuit, Oxbow, S. 49, Union Pacific

Fight for our futures against labor’s enemies

June 7, 2011 UTU members are stepping up to the plate in the fight to preserve collective bargaining rights, Amtrak, workplace safety, Railroad Retirement, Social Security and Medicare by mounting a counter attack on political extremists intent on destroying organized labor and all it has [...]

Tags Amtrak, anti-union, collective bargaining defense fund, Hynes, Lenfest, Local 113, union busting, UTU PAC

Charlotte bus drivers vote ‘yes’ for UTU

June 6, 2011 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The 546 bus operators employed by Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) have voted by more than a 2-1 margin to return to the United Transportation Union. Calvin Studivant, alternate vice president of the UTU Bus Department, will now assist those bus op [...]

Tags bus, CATS, charlotte, contract, Local 1596, organizing, vote, vote yes

Court: Cab cams don’t violate privacy

June 3, 2011 LOS ANGELES — A lawsuit brought by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen against Los Angeles Metrolink to eliminate inward-facing video cameras in the cab has been dismissed by a judge here. Superior Court Judge Luis Lavin said the inward-facing cameras, [...]

Tags BLET, FRA, inward-facing cameras, Metrolink, privacy, texting, video cameras

Transport-employee fatigue continues to kill

June 2, 2011 While sleep scientists have established that going to work fatigued is like going to work drunk, there remains a disconnect among those who manage transportation firms. And people are needlessly dying and being seriously injured as a result. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHoo [...]

Tags designated legal counsel, fatigue, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, FMCSA, LaHood, National Transportation Safety Board, OSHA, whistleblower