Union Pacific (UP) announced that they plan to layoff 500 managers (8 percent) and 250 railroad workers in an effort to cut costs. Most of the manager jobs being cut are located at UP headquarters in Omaha, Neb. Click here to read more from ABC affiliate KETV 7.
Ohio’s State Legislative Director Stuart Gardner went on The Union Edge: Labor’s Talk Radio to discuss with Host Charles Showalter why two-person crews are necessary for the safety of all. https://static.smart-union.org/worksite/Video/Aug_8_Stuart_Gardner.m [...]
The Chicago Tribune reported that Hunter Harrison, CEO of CSX, is at it again – killing jobs and rolling over safety measures to increase profits that benefit only a select few. According to the report, more than 60 engineers, conductors and switchmen at Barr Yard in Ch [...]
Additional funeral services have been added for International Representative James R. Cumby in his original home state of Michigan. A visitation will be held at 10 a.m., Aug. 25, at St. Peters Lutheran Church, 17051 24 Mile Rd., Macomb, MI 48042. A service will follow at 11 a [...]
In a letter dated August 3, that was emailed to CSX CEO Hunter Harrison, SMART TD general chairpersons batted down Harrison’s claims that workers are at the root of service disruptions. General Chairpersons Steve Mavity (GO 049), John Whitaker (GO 851), Dale Barnett (GO [...]
BostonGlobe.com reported that John Sweeney, longtime Amtrak conductor and SMART TD Local 1462 member from Boston, Mass., successfully completed a 3,000 mile, coast-to-coast bicycle trek that he was suppose to embark on 41 years ago, and never did. Read the complete story here [...]
SMART Transportation Division members are reminded that elections are scheduled to be held this autumn to fill the three-year local officer positions described by the SMART Constitution’s Article 21B, Section 56. Positions include president, vice president, secretary, treasur [...]
Railroad subjected class of female workers to unlawful physical abilities testing, federal agency charges HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – CSX Transportation, Inc., a provider of rail-based transportation services with operations throughout the eastern half of the United States, vio [...]
RailwayAge.com reported that data released from a recent CSX customer survey shows that more than eighty percent of customer participants have experienced problems with CEO Hunter Harrison’s ‘Precision Railroading’ plan. Many CSX customers have already left [...]
Reuters posted on August 1, 2017, that in an email last week to his customers, CSX CEO Hunter Harrison addressed service delays and disruptions by placing blame squarely on his employees, stating that they have been “resistant to change.” John Risch, SMART TD nati [...]
