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FRA seeks new passenger train safety rules

January 4, 2012 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Improvements to existing passenger train emergency systems regulations have been proposed by the Federal Railroad Administration. The improvements are aimed at helping passengers and passenger-train crew [...]

Tags Amtrak, passenger train

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Indiana commencing new assault on labor unions

January 3, 2012 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. A new assault on labor unions is commencing in Indiana, with the Republican-controlled legislature setting their No. 1 2012 priority on passing right-to-work legislation that would permit workers covered [...]

Tags collective bargaining defense fund, Indiana, Mitch Daniels, right-to-work

DM&IR, DW&P merged into Wisconsin Central

January 3, 2012 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Canadian National has completed the merger of Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway and Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway into its Wisconsin Central subsidiary. CN said the merger, approved by the [...]

Tags Canadian National, CN, Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range, Winnipeg & Pacific, Wisconsin Central

‘Tis the season for sweets — and restraint

December 28, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. By Dr. Norman K. BrownUTU Medical Consultant When I want to get started on a job that I have been putting off, I eat a few chocolate chip cookies (think sugar), and my enthusiasm picks right up and I am o [...]

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OSHA website offers winter safety tips

December 28, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON –The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has created a webpage to provide worker and employer guidance during winter weather: http://s.dol.gov/L1 The web page in [...]

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Two new rail agreements ratified

December 27, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Wier Two new UTU negotiated rail agreements have been ratified by members. UTU-represented trainmen and engineers employed by Evansville & Western Railroad overwhelmingly ratified a new five-year agre [...]

Tags Dany Kautzman, Dave McFarland, Dave Wier, Evansville & Western, Iowa Interstate, Jesse West, Local 1525, Local 258, Norman Kitchen, R.W. "Red" Dare

Health care tax benefit for Mass. rail members

December 27, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. UTU members in Massachusetts covered under the National Rail Contract and other UTU plans will not face a tax penalty for the 2011 state tax year for dependent child maternity benefits. The Massachusetts [...]

FAA announces new pilot fatigue rules

December 21, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced new rules aimed at preventing dangerous fatigue among passenger aircraft pilots. The rules do not affect all-cargo aircraft pilot [...]

Tags FAA, fatigue, Federal Aviation Administration, pilots

Fund established for family of member killed on job

December 21, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. A fund has been established for the family of Local 1957 member Stacy Rieger, a BNSF conductor, who was killed Dec. 18 when his head reportedly struck a bridge beam while leaning over the railing of his m [...]

Tags BNSF conductor, bridge, killed, Local 1957, Rieger

OSHA raps UP again for whistleblower violation

December 21, 2011 Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Once again, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered a railroad to reinstate an employee and pay him back wages for violating an employee’s rights a [...]

Tags Federal Rail Safety Act, OSHA, Union Pacific, whistleblower