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Ask Your Lawmakers’ Support For Two-Person Crews

July 30, 2014 Members of the SMART Transportation Division and all of labor are reminded that they have the opportunity to make it federal law to have two qualified persons working on all freight trains operating in the United States a reality. Now is the time to contact your legislators i [...]

Video: GP Nigro Addresses SMART TD Convention In San Diego

July 30, 2014 On the last day of the SMART Transportation Division Convention, held in San Diego, Calif., General President Joseph Nigro addressed the delegates and discussed transparency, solidarity between construction and transportation workers, along with giving a look at the upcoming [...]

Skilled Labor Apprenticeships Also A Form of ‘Higher Education’

July 30, 2014 The term “higher education” can take on many connotations. Where some believe it means attending a two- or four-year college or university, there is another side to higher education – apprenticeship in the skilled labor trades. Apprentices at more than 153 unionized sheet met [...]

Judge Rules Indiana “Right to Work” For Less Law Unconstitutional

July 30, 2014 An Indiana Judge has ruled that the state’s “Right-to-Work” law is unconstitutional, the second such blow to the legislation since its passage in 2012. Lake County Circuit Judge George Paras decided against the state in United Steelworkers vs. Zoeller on July 17th, ruling tha [...]

Szabo: Proposed rules on hazmat need your input

July 29, 2014 The following message was sent to the SMART Transportation Division National Legislative Office from Federal Railroad Administrator Joe Szabo. Friends: Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation released two companion rulemaking proposals to improve the safe transportat [...]

Tags proposed rulemaking on transportation of large quantities of flammable materials, Szabo

Group seeks donations to bring NP caboose home

July 29, 2014 In the sleepy and quaint town of Vermilion, Ohio, along the shores of Lake Erie, where boats are docked and buoyed along the water’s edge and early 20th century Victorian architecture still abounds, there will be a homecoming. Nickel Plate Caboose #1155 is coming home! Howeve [...]

Tags Friends of Harbour Town, Nickel Plate caboose #1155

Time to act on two-person rail crews is now!

July 29, 2014 Members of the SMART Transportation Division and all of rail labor are reminded that they have the opportunity to make it federal law to have two qualified persons working on all freight trains operating in the United States a reality. Now is the time to contact your legislat [...]

Tags H.R. 3040, two-person rail crews

FMCSA, OSHA strengthening worker protections

July 28, 2014 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the coordination and cooper [...]

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NS sues to block disclosure of crude oil shipments

July 28, 2014 WASHINGTON – A major hauler of crude oil by rail has sued the state of Maryland to stop the public release of information about the shipments, according to court documents. The suit was filed Wednesday, the same day the U.S. Department of Transportation announced proposed rul [...]

Tags crude oil, Norfolk Southern

Seattle City Council seeks DOT emergency order

July 25, 2014 SEATTLE – City Councilmember Mike O’Brien and all eight of his council colleagues signed a letter calling for the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to issue an emergency order prohibiting the shipment of Bakken crude oil in legacy DOT-111 tank train cars. Bakken is highl [...]

Tags crude oil, DOT, emergency order, Seattle, tank cars