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Rail revenue adequacy faces challenge; stocks down
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – Individuals choose bank savings accounts based on the interest rate offered, assuming the investment is secure because no depositor has ever lost their principal on a Federal Deposit Insuranc [...]Shuttle van service fined after deadly BSNF crash
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. KELSO, Wash. – Shuttle van operator Coach America Crew Transport has been fined more than $13,000 by the State of Washington for alleged safety lapses in the wake of a train-van accident in March that kil [...]UTU reaches tentative agreement with Texas shortline
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. DITTLINGER, Texas — The UTU has reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement with shortline Western Rail Road on behalf of train, engine and mechanical workers who now will vote on ratificati [...]UTU Arizona SLD helps blunt anti-union extremists
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. PHOENIX – UTU Arizona State Legislative Director Greg Hynes has seen the political attack on organized labor unfold in the Southeast, the Midwest and north in Idaho, knowing it was but a matter of time be [...]
Rail safety concerns? Questions? FRA all ears
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. CHICAGO — Here is an opportunity to voice your rail safety concerns directly to the administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration. A 90-minute town hall meeting on rail safety will be held Tu [...]North Platte, Neb., retirees to meet
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — UTU Alumni Association Chapter 17 will host its second annual UTU/UTUe alumni luncheon Tuesday, Oct. 4, at noon, here at the Depot Restaurant, 520 N. Jeffers. All retirees, and [...]UTU pact sweet as health care premiums soar
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The UTU’s ratified national rail contract – locking in for six years a $200 monthly health care insurance premium — is looking even more attractive following a Kaiser Family Foundation study showing [...]New RRB labor member; NMB nominees await Senate
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – A former secretary-treasurer of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen – Walt Barrows – is the new labor member of the Railroad Retirement Board following his Senate confirmation Sept. 27. He [...]