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Bus, transit and EAS funding extended
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – Federal Transit Administration bus-project and other transit funding – in danger owing to political squabbling — will remain in place at least through March 31, 2012, following House an [...]Sister of LIRR GC Anthony Simon dies
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The sister of UTU General Chairperson Anthony Simon (Long Island Rail Road, GO 505) died Sept. 15 following a long-struggle with cancer. Cards of condolence may be sent to Simon at his general committee o [...]
Local meetings source of information, inspiration
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. By General Secretary & Treasurer Kim Thompson As a young railroad employee, I wondered why we had the wages and benefits that we had, why we had rules for assignments and for the work we performed. I [...]National rail contract pay jump effective Sept. 16
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The new national rail contract and its increased rates of pay become effective Sept. 16. Sept. 16 is also the trigger date from which the carriers are pledged to make retroactive wage payments within 60 d [...]UTU Fla. SLD in thick of fight to end gerrymandering
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. In Florida last week, the people prevailed as a federal district court ruled Florida voters have every right to restrict the state legislature’s ability to redraw the election map willy-nilly to favor inc [...]UTU member dies in Ohio CSX shoving accident
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. BOTKINS, Ohio – CSX conductor Dennis A. Hemme, 59, became the ninth UTU member to die in an on-the-job accident in 2011 when he reportedly was crushed to death here Sept. 8 during a mainline shove of a st [...]
House Republicans propose sharp Amtrak cuts
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – House Republicans are supporting a budget plan that Amtrak says will eliminate all state-supported Amtrak service nationwide beginning Oct. 1 — the start of a new federal fiscal year. F [...]