Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. UTU-represented engineers and conductors employed by Apache Railroad in Arizona have ratified a new three-year agreement providing for wage increases, certification pay, improvements in disability and lif [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. CANADIAN NATIONAL Canadian National reported a 9 percent increase in profit for calendar-year 2011 versus calendar-year 2010. The CN calendar-year operating ratio of 63.5 percent was a slight improvement [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. UTU engineers, conductors and collectors employed by Chicago South Shore & South Bend, an electric-line passenger operation between Chicago and South Bend, Ind., have ratified a new two-year agreement [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Anthony Simon, general chairperson on Long Island Rail Road, has been elected to a four-year term as chairperson of District 1 of the UTU’s Association of General Chairpersons. District 1 is made up of so [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. In its latest organizing victory, the UTU now represents maintenance-of-way employees on Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad, a RailAmerica property. Contract negotiations, led by UTU Alternate Vice Pr [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. JAMESTOWN, N.D. — Great Lakes Airlines crews represented by the UTU will soon be flying in and out of Jamestown. The Department of Transportation selected Great Lakes Airlines to provide air service [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The Federal Railroad Administration’s new associate administrator for administration is Michael Logue, a 29-year employee of the agency. Logue has served as a railroad safety inspector trainee and in vari [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The Federal Railroad Administration has called attention to an injury where a conductor, while lifting the operating lever on a freight car, was dragged four car lengths after the lever became tangled in [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Billionaire Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway investment fund owns 100 percent of BNSF, recently appeared on television in China, singing “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” while [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. UTU local and International officer Kenneth L. Knorr, 58, died Jan. 20. Knorr was a member of Local 1031, Savannah, Ga. He hired on with the Seaboard Coast Line, now part of CSX, in 1977. He served in a v [...]