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Unions reject NJT tentative agreement

May 2, 2016 SMART Transportation Division membership rejected a tentative agreement with New Jersey Transit from March that prevented a strike. BLET also rejected the agreement. Read more from NJ.com.

Tags BLET, New Jersey Transit, NJT, tentative agreement

Republicans seek to protect union busters from transparency rule

May 2, 2016 The GOP has announced that it will fight a Department of Labor (DOL) rule requiring employers to report having hired third parties to draft and deliver anti-union messages to workers. The measure was announced by the DOL in the Federal Register March 24 and went into effect l [...]

Tags DOL, GOP, transparency rule

N.Y. State Comptroller DiNapoli urges Feds to increase oil train safety

April 28, 2016 Timesunion reported that New York State comptroller Tom DiNapoli has written a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, urging for increased oil train safety measures and warning how oil train spills could threaten state funds. Read the entire story [...]

Tags Anthony Foxx, N.Y. State Comptroller DiNapoli, oil train safety, U.S. Department of Transportation

CN Rail trestle bridge burns to ground in Mayerthorpe, Alta.

April 28, 2016 CBC News reported that a CN Rail trestle bridge was destroyed by fire in Mayerthorpe, Alta; and that the fire may have been purposely set. Read the entire story here.

Tags Canadian National, CN, trestle bridge

Ill. county passes resolution supporting proposed two-person crew rule

April 27, 2016 The following is an article written by SMART Transportation Division Illinois State Legislative Director Bob Guy and was originally published on the Illinois State Legislative Board website, www.illini.utu.org. Upon the urging of SMART, the Will County Board passed a resoluti [...]

Tags Federal Railroad Administration, FRA, Illinois State Legislative Director Bob Guy, two-person crews

Class I’s announce 2016 first quarter financial results

April 27, 2016 CSX Corporation announced declining financial results for the first quarter 2016. Net earnings for the railroad decreased to $356 million or $0.37 per share, down from first quarter 2015 reported net earnings of $442 million or $0.45 per share. “As we managed through the impa [...]

Tags Class I railroads, CN, CP, CSX, first quarter 2016, first quarter earnings, KCS, NS, UP

CP to eliminate more jobs in 2016

April 26, 2016 The Calgary Herald reported that Canadian Pacific Railway may eliminate more jobs in 2016 than originally announced; possibly as many as 1,400 positions. Read the entire story here.

Tags Canadian Pacific, CP

Amtrak's 'Trails and Rails' adding NYC to D.C. route

April 26, 2016 Railway Age reported that The National Park Service, in partnership with Amtrak, added to its Saturday morning Trails and Rails program a New York to Washington, D.C. route. Read the entire story here.

Tags Amtrak, Trails and Rails

AFL-CIO tribute to Prince

April 25, 2016 Prince Rogers Nelson: musical genius, champion of the working class, lifelong union member and champion for workers’ rights and social justice. The AFL-CIO paid tribute to Prince in an online article written by Kenneth Quinnell, posted on April 22. Read the complete ar [...]

Tags AFL-CIO, unions, workers' rights

AFL-CIO tribute to Prince: "working-class hero"

April 25, 2016 From an article written by Kenneth Quinnell, posted to aflcio.org on April 22: “For more than 40 years, Prince was a union member, a long-standing member of both the Twin Cities Musicians Local 30-73 of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) and SAG-AFTRA. Beginning [...]