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Category: Two-person railroad crews


The largest freight rail union in the United States reinforces the safety and necessity of having two crew members aboard freight trains.

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TTD President Regan: Transportation labor has shown it’s a driving force

August 10, 2022 SAN FRANCISCO — Transportation Trades Department (TTD), AFL-CIO President Greg Regan emphasized that the resurgence of labor unions’ power has been very apparent as he addressed the general session Aug. 9, the second day of the SMART Leadership Conference. It began as the nat [...]
  • Tags AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO TTD, Greg Regan, TTD, two-person crews

FRA NPRM: The truth behind the need for two-person crews

August 5, 2022 It’s a shame, really, that the safety of my members, the public and the infrastructure are nothing more than political pawns in the railroads’ game of never-ending greed. And it’s a shame, frankly, that the railroads manipulate woefully inept individuals – having never meanin [...]
  • Tags Federal Railroad Administration, FRA, Railway Age, Two-person crew NPRM, two-person crews

The TRUTH about the railroad supply chain and labor negotiations

July 8, 2022 SMART Transportation Division (SMART-TD) would like to take a few moments to update the thousands of essential rail workers whom we proudly represent, the rail shippers and customers, as well as the public at large on the real status of labor negotiations and about the seriou [...]
  • Tags Jeremy Ferguson, National Rail Negotiations, SMART-TD President Jeremy Ferguson, two-person crews

Ferguson to House subcommittee: ‘I’m screaming into the bullhorn’ for help

June 14, 2022 WASHINGTON, D.C. — SMART Transportation Division President Jeremy Ferguson told members of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials June 14 that freight railroads’ unchecked lust for profits is placing the safety of workers and the public at [...]
  • Tags House Rail Subcommittee, Transportation Division President Jeremy Ferguson

TD President Ferguson to testify before House rail subcommittee

June 8, 2022 SMART Transportation Division President Jeremy R. Ferguson is scheduled to be a featured witness testifying next week in a hearing before the U.S. House Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee. The hearing on freight rail safety is scheduled 10 a.m. June 14 [...]
  • Tags House subcommittee on railroads, SMART-TD President Jeremy Ferguson

FRA admin: Train length a factor in considering crew-size rule

April 13, 2022 Federal Railroad Administrator Amit Bose last week addressed a shippers’ conference and said that part of his agency’s rationale in approaching a minimum crew size rulemaking will be taking into consideration the carriers’ use of longer trains, Trains Magazine reported April [...]
  • Tags Amit Bose, Federal Railroad Administration, precision scheduled railroading, two-person crews

BNSF & NS declare impasse over crew size

March 15, 2022 Class I railroad carriers BNSF and NS declared an impasse this week in the mandatory bargaining over crew size under Section 6 of the Railway Labor Act (RLA). In declaring an impasse, the two railroads, represented by the National Railway Labor Conference (NRLC), seek federal [...]
  • Tags BNSF, crew consist, crew consists, impasse, Norfolk Southern, Railway Labor Act, two-person rail crews

Two-person crew bills introduced in Michigan House and Senate

December 3, 2021 Legislators in Michigan introduced bills Dec. 2 in both the state House and Senate intended to keep freight rail operations on the state’s more than 3,600 miles of track running safely and efficiently. H.B. 5596 and S.B. 767 require a crew of at least two qualified people in [...]
  • Tags Michigan State Legislative Director Donald Roach, two person crew legislation

PSR’s role in supply-chain problems ignored in Examiner piece

November 19, 2021 The takeaway from a Washington Examiner article published Nov. 16 regarding recent supply-chain snarls is that rail labor’s desire to maintain the current standard level of personnel — a certified conductor and a certified engineer — aboard the monster freight trains brought [...]
  • Tags precision scheduled railroading

Pro-carrier “exclusive” attacks the Rule of 2

November 17, 2021 In anticipation of today’s House hearing on the U.S. supply chain, an “exclusive” pro-carrier piece in the Washington Examiner on freight crew size says that keeping two people on freight crews is making the problem worse, neglecting to mention the massive c [...]
  • Tags Association of American Railroads, The Rule of 2, two person crew

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