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Panel recommends safety improvements at N.Y. MTA

August 29, 2014 Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) Blue Ribbon Panel studying safety and maintenance practices at its three railroads yesterday announced 29 recommendations to improve operations and safety. Created a year ago after a series of safety-related incidents at MTA [...]

Tags LIRR, Long Island Rail Road, New York MTA, safety

Short Line says "yes" to SMART representation

August 28, 2014 In a landslide vote held Aug. 27, employees of Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad voted for SMART representation. Of the 53 eligible voters and 42 total votes, 37 voted for SMART Transportation Division representation while five voted for no representation. Phillip Craig [...]

Tags Genesee & Wyoming, Rapid City Pierre and Eastern Railroad

Seeking Proposals for Section 6 Notices

August 28, 2014 The SMART Transportation Division is beginning the process of formulating Section 6 notices to be served on rail carriers negotiating under the umbrella of the National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC), which will include proposals to increase wages, benefits and improve [...]

Video: Two Person Crews & Local Autonomy At the First SMART General Convention

August 27, 2014 SMART delegates hold discussion on 2 person crews and local autonomy at the First SMART General Convention. This open discussion happened on the afternoon of Friday, August 15. Both sheet metal and transportation delegates took part in the discussion. Click here to view the video.

Union seeks proposals for Section 6 notices

August 27, 2014 The SMART Transportation Division is beginning the process of formulating Section 6 notices to be served on rail carriers negotiating under the umbrella of the National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC), which will include proposals to increase wages, benefits and improve [...]

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AFL-CIO's Trumka: 'We won't be turned aside'

August 26, 2014 AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka drew several standing ovations during an electrifying speech to delegates and guests on the fourth day of the SMART Convention Aug. 14. The former United Mineworkers’ president began his speech by addressing the merger of the former Sheet M [...]

Tags First SMART General Convention, Trumka

SMART Members Make Gains In Cincinnati

August 26, 2014 On Friday August 23rd, SMART Local 211 (headquartered in Nashville, TN) members in Cincinnati, OH unanimously ratified an agreement that includes recalling all furloughed SMART members (since 2012) back to work and adds two new positions for members. The Agreement calls for e [...]

Deadly Arkansas train crash cleanup ongoing

August 26, 2014 An important highway in northeast Arkansas could stay closed into next week as crews clean up the wreckage left from a head-on train collision, a highway official said Wednesday. Two railroad workers were killed and two others were injured when the Union Pacific freight train [...]

Tags collision, Hoxie, Union Pacific, UP

Medicare: Consider insurance when traveling abroad

August 26, 2014 When planning a foreign trip, it’s highly unlikely your first thought would be, “Will Medicare pay if I get injured or have a medical emergency before I get back home?” Many patients think their Medicare benefits will provide coverage, wherever they go. Unfortunately, this is [...]

Tags Medicare, Palmetto GBA, seniors

Grain piles up as trains move N.D. oil

August 26, 2014 FARGO, N.D. – The furious pace of energy exploration in North Dakota is creating a crisis for farmers whose grain shipments have been held up by a vast new movement of oil by rail, leading to millions of dollars in agricultural losses and slower production for breakfast cerea [...]

Tags crude oil, grain shipments, oil train