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Patience, persistence will ensure HSR

January 23, 2012 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. In 2008, California voters authorized a $9.95 billion bond measure as a down-payment for a high-speed rail project linking the Sacramento (in northern California), the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angel [...]

Tags high-speed rail, Interstate Highways, Jerry Brown, Jim Oberstar

UTUIA now accepting scholarship applications

January 19, 2012 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The UTUIA is now accepting scholarship applications for the UTU/UTUIA Scholarship Program. Information regarding the scholarship and the application process is below. The application form printed in the J [...]

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Walking papers for Wis. Gov. Walker

January 18, 2012 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. MADISON, Wis. – Twice the number of signatures needed to force a recall election of anti-union Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker were delivered to state election officials Jan. 17. State officials told The New [...]

Notice to UTU local treasurers

January 17, 2012 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. UTU local treasurers must file Internal Revenue Service forms W-2 and W-3 forms for all employees receiving wages in 2011. The W-2 form reports wages paid to employees, and the Social Security or Railroad [...]

NTSB urges action on speed-restriction complaince

January 16, 2012 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – Warnings of speed violations have been issued by the National Transportation Safety Board, which urges unions, their members, carriers and the Federal Railroad Administration to work collabor [...]

Tags NTSB, safety, speed-restrictions

MLK advocated economic opportunity, trade unions

January 11, 2012 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. By Calvin StudivantAlternate Vice President, Bus Department As we follow the demonstrations of the 99 percent against the greed and wealth of America’stop one percent, I am reminded of a 1967 speech by Dr [...]

Tags Calvin Studivant, Martin Luther King Jr.

BNSF worker dies in Texas yard accident

January 10, 2012 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. AMARILLO, Texas – A BNSF maintenance-of-way employee was killed here Jan. 9 after being struck by a rail car, according to media reports. One report said the accident occurred as a rail grinder was being [...]

Former Ind. State Director Carrico dies

January 9, 2012 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. James F. Carrico Sr., 61, former Indiana State Legislative Director of the United Transportation Union, died Jan. 4. A member of Local 333 at North Vernon, Ind., Carrico entered rail service as a conducto [...]

No serious crew injuries in Indiana train wreck

January 7, 2012 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. VALPARAISO, Ind. – Members of the UTU Transportation Safety Team have joined investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Railroad Administration here following a collision [...]

Marie Weisbarth, mother of Jeff, dies

January 4, 2012 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Marie C. (Armagno) Weisbarth, mother of UTU International Director of Membership Services Jeff Weisbarth, has died. She was 83. Memorial contributions may be made to the Kidney Foundation of Ohio, 2831 Pr [...]