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Wis. voters return labor-friendly majority to senate
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Voters in Wisconsin appear to have returned control of the state senate to a labor-friendly majority, even though anti-union Gov. Scott Walker, anti-union Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and three political ex [...]MOW workers on M&NA shortline ratify first pact
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Turner UTU-represented maintenance-of-way employees on Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad, who chose the UTU as their bargaining representative in January, have ratified their first collective bargain [...]Funeral services set for slain LACMTA bus driver
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Funeral services have been set for Alan Thomas, 51, a bus driver for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and member of Local 1563, who was murdered aboard his bus May 20 by a lone [...]Wisc. anti-union governor faces recall Tuesday
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Voters in Wisconsin will decide Tuesday, June 5, whether to recall their anti-union Gov. Scott Walker, a recall election engineered largely by working families and union members after Walker successfully [...]
UTU VP’s niece ends life to escape bullying
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Tori Nakol Swoape, a niece of UTU International Vice President Delbert Strunk, was, according to friends, a “beautiful” and “very bubbly” 15-year old high school sophomore. Tori committed suicide in May, [...]Parliament ends 9-day CP Railway strike
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. OTTAWA – Some 4,800 striking Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive engineers, conductors and rail traffic controllers represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference are returning to their jobs June 1 f [...]
Rail fatality in N.D.; amputation in Missouri
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. During the month of May, one UTU member was killed in North Dakota in a rail switching accident, another was murdered on his bus route in Los Angeles, and another lost a foot in Missouri in a yard switch [...]One-stop web address for rail health care info
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Railroad employees and/or their eligible dependents covered under the national railroad medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits plans may now find information about those b [...]