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N.J. SLB announces candidate endorsements for Nov. 7 elections
New Jersey State Legislative Director Ronald E. Sabol reports that the N.J. State Legislative Board (SLB) has announced their endorsements for candidates running for election Nov. 7, 2017. “The NJSLB would like to remind all of our N.J. members Election Day is November 7th an [...]
SMART TD comments favor Electronically Controlled Pneumatic (ECP) brake systems
These comments are on behalf of the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART). The SMART Transportation Division, formerly the United Transportation Union, is an organization representing approximate [...]
Arkansas Workers Make New Case to Organize the South
Via Press Associates Union News For decades, the South has been the Achilles heel of the labor movement. While unions took root and thrived in places like the industrial Midwest and Northeast, or in the ports and plants of West Coast states in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, Dixie [...]
3rd quarter financial results released by Class I’s
Net Earnings: $459 million or $0.51 per share, up from $455 million or $0.49 per share for the same period last year Revenue: Increased 1 percent to $2,743 million Operating Income: Improved 4 percent to $876 million Operating Ratio: Improve [...]
Building Trades: US Needs $4 Trillion for Infrastructure Repairs
By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik Press Associates Union News Service The U.S. needs to spend $4 trillion, four times as much as the Republican Trump administration requested, for needed infrastructure repairs, the president of North America’s Building Trades Unions sa [...]
Update: Condition of member who suffered domestic attack
Amtrak conductor and Local 1933 member Amanda “Mandie” Brillhart has been in the hospital more than a month and continues to undergo surgeries after Florence, S.C., sheriff’s deputies said her husband, Charles Durell Nethercutt, poured gasoline on her and set her on fire in t [...]
Armed man apprehended on Amtrak train
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Taylor M. Wilson, 25, of St. Charles, Mo., was detained by Amtrak staff after he pulled the emergency brake while aboard an Amtrak train traveling southwest through Nebraska. It was discovered that Wilson was armed with a loaded Smith [...]
SMART TD joins in mourning John Harold Burner, former assistant director in Illinois
John Harold Burner, 75, of Robinson, Ill., a former assistant state director for the United Transportation Union, died at 10:50 p.m. Oct. 22, 2017 at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind. He was born April 21, 1942, the son of Harold & Edith (Comer) Burner, both [...]