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UTU partners with Amtrak for training
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The UTU, as a subcontractor to Amtrak, is in the final stages of developing a training manual – “Emerging Incidents Procedures” – for some 8,000 front-line Amtrak employees. “The manual will be used as pa [...]
DOT ‘hero’ awards to 2 Amtrak conductors
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Heroism has no timetable, no expectation, no formula. It is displayed instantaneously and accompanied only by rare courage. Enter, center stage, two UTU heroes – Amtrak conductors Richard d’Alessandro and [...]NS hiring conductors, other crafts
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Norfolk Southern said Nov. 3 it intends to hire 500 employees by year end, and add another 2,600 employees in 2012 to meet growing demand for service and to replace those retiring. Hiring will be for cond [...]UP lone “revenue adequate” railroad for 2010
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – The U.S. Surface Transportation Board has determined that only one major railroad – Union Pacific – was “revenue adequate” in calendar year 2010. A railroad is considered “revenue adequate” i [...]Medicare Part B premium will rise in 2012
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The Medicare Part B premium will rise by $3.50 monthly to $99.90 monthly beginning Jan. 1, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. This is the first increase in the Part B premium i [...]
UTU PAC supports all UTU’s lawmaker friends
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. LaTourette WASHINGTON – While organized labor has more friends in the Democratic Party, and carriers have more friends in the Republican Party, there are many Republicans who are friends of organized labo [...]H&W enrollment return deadline nearing
Nov. 11 is the deadline for returning to Railroad Enrollment Services the annual health and welfare enrollment materials for railroad employees and/or dependents covered under the National Railway Carriers and United Transportation Union (NRC/UTU) Health and Welfare Plan. For [...]UTU S. Florida Tri-Rail agreement finalized
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Previsich Operations center employees of South Florida Tri-Rail, who voted UTU “yes” early in 2011, have their first collective bargaining agreement in place. It provides for a signing bonus; an immediate [...]