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Local 137 Members Light Up Times Square

December 15, 2014 Members of Sheet Metal Local 137 in New York City are known for their expertise when it comes to keeping the city lit up—dazzling generations of tourists and New Yorkers with the Big Apple’s bright lights and giant billboards. Now they can add another notch to their belt with [...]

Previsich testifies before senators on passenger rail

December 11, 2014 SMART Transportation Division President John Previsich testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security Dec. 10 at the Russell Senate Office Bui [...]

Walker Aims At Building Trades, Private Sector Unions

December 5, 2014 A Wisconsin State Representative has announced that he will introduce a Right-to-Work for less bill in the upcoming legislative session. The move comes just days after a former Americans for Prosperity associate, Lorri Pickens, announced a new tea party group called “Wiscons [...]

Local 17 JATC Hailed By US Secretary of Labor As Model For Rest of Nation

November 25, 2014 Sheet Metal Workers Local 17 was the first of the building trades to register its apprenticeship program in the state of Massachusetts as far back as 1952. While visiting the state on Nov. 17, U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez dropped by the Sheet Metal Workers Joint Apprentices [...]

BNSF announces $6B capital expenditures for 2015

November 20, 2014 BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) today announced that its planned capital expenditures for 2015 will be $6 billion, which will go toward maintenance and expansion of the railroad in order to meet the expected demand for freight rail service. The 2015 plan marks the third year in a [...]

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NS continues actions to boost performance

November 19, 2014 An acceleration of resource additions, coupled with the annual volume decline after Thanksgiving, should provide incremental improvements in train performance and terminal fluidity heading into next year, Norfolk Southern Corp. officials said in a service update posted on the [...]

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NS to buy part of northeast rail line from CP

November 18, 2014 CALGARY – Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. is selling a stretch of track in the northeastern United States to a major U.S. railway in a $217-million deal. Norfolk Southern plans to acquire nearly 455 kilometres of rail line from Delaware & Hudson, a CP subsidiary, between Su [...]

Tags Canadian Pacific, Delaware & Hudson, Norfolk Southern, STB, Surface Transportation Board

Wis. SLD: There's a better solution to train issue

November 17, 2014 In a letter to the editor published Oct. 24 in the Fond du Lac Reporter, SMART Transportation Division’s Wisconsin State Legislative Director Craig Peachy wrote a response to an article that was published Sept. 13 entitled, “More trains lead to traffic delays at c [...]

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Indiana Rail Road backs single-person train crews

November 17, 2014 During each shift, Frank Rodriguez typically operates an Indiana Rail Road Co. (INRD) train by himself from Indianapolis to Switz City, Ind., and back. The locomotive engineer has covered the 180-mile round trip as a one-person crew for more than 10 years. Although there isn& [...]

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Former Local 911 Chairperson Fred Croes Jr. dies

November 14, 2014 Retired former Local 911 (Minneapolis) Chairperson Fred J. Croes Jr., 78, a mentor to many United Transportation Union and SMART Transportation Division officers in the Upper Midwest, died Nov. 12 of natural causes. Croes was born May 18, 1936, in St. Paul, Minn. At age 18, h [...]

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