Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. LOS ANGELES — Metrolink has entered into a partnership with the University of Southern California’s engineering school to create an advanced rail system safety certification program to, in its [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. COVINGTON, Va. — The Jackson River, a tributary of the James, meanders east through the hollows of west-central Virginia. Flowing under CSX tracks in Covington, some 200 miles west of Richmond, the [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. UTU General Chairperson Rich Draskovich (Union Pacific, GO 953) has been recognized by the National Mediation Board (NMB) for “a special achievement” in helping reduce the agency’s backlog of [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. By Assistant President Arty Martin The attack on public-employee collective bargaining rights by right-wing extremists is intended to destroy labor unions. Union busting is something expected in the priva [...]
As expected, the Republican-controlled Wisconsin House of Representatives March 10 approved state senate passed legislation revoking collective bargaining rights for public employees. The bill now goes to Republican Gov. Scott Walker who promises to sign it into law. Noting t [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Retired National Mediation Board arbitrator Roy J. Carvatta, known to many UTU general chairpersons, has died in Chicago at age 87. Carvatta served for many years as the NMB’s director of arbitratio [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The Republican controlled Wisconsin state senate, with all Democrats still absent, passed a bill late Wednesday, March 9, stripping from public employees almost all collective bargaining rights. The vote [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON — Amtrak reported March 9 that it has marked 16 consecutive months of ridership growth, and that February was the best on record, with 2.1 million passengers. “The ridership increas [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Railroads, enjoying record profits, say they will invest $12 billion in improving their track and operations in 2011, a significant increase over the $10.7 billion spent on capital improvements in 2010. A [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. By Dr. Norman K. Brown UTU medical consultant UTU members and their families have access to excellent wellness programs through health- insurance providers that help control and eliminate many bad habits [...]
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