As reported by Ryan Beene and Josh Eidelson in Bloomberg Labor unions are urging a slowdown as lawmakers fast track legislation to allow self-driving vehicles on the road, a potential boon to some union jobs and an existential threat to others. The House Energy & Commerce committee Thursday advanced legislation on a 54-0 vote that […]
AFL-CIO Coalition Seeks to Clip Hair Testing As reported by David Cullen in Trucking Info A coalition of 32 AFL-CIO member unions representing transportation workers is urging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to deny a petition by several trucking companies to use hair specimens in lieu of federally mandated urine in pre-employment drug […]
Transportation Unions Roll Out Strategies to Move Infrastructure Package As reported by Peter Buxbaum in Global Trade Magazine Transportation labor leaders have laid out a strategy focused on shaping President Donald Trump’s $1 trillion transportation infrastructure package and tackling challenges faced by transportation workers. But the labor leaders, along with Democrats in Congress who […]
Trump budget proposal slashes transportation funding As reported by Ben Meyer in American Shipper President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday released a preliminary budget proposal for 2018 that would slash funding for the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). The budget proposal allots $16.2 billion for USDOT’s discretionary budget, a $2.4 billion (13 percent) decrease […]
Unions Call for Federal Funds, High Labor Standards in $1 Trillion Infrastructure Package As published by Eugene Mulero in Transport Topics The Trump administration’s $1 trillion infrastructure funding proposal should significantly rely on federal funds and include provisions designed to protect rights of employees, transportation labor leaders said March 13. “Every sector of the transportation […]
Teamsters Press Trump to Drop NAFTA’s Mexican Trucker Provision As reported by Stephanie Beasley The Teamsters Union is lobbying President Donald Trump to eliminate a NAFTA provision that allows long-haul Mexican trucks to operate in the U.S. Teamsters General President James Hoffa discussed a contentious North American Free Trade Agreement provision that allows cross-border trucking […]
Unions asks FMCSA to extend comment period for hair testing request from large carriers As reported by Matt Cole in Commercial Carrier Journal A group representing dozens of transportation workers unions is asking the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to extend the public comment period for a recent request made by a few large trucking […]
DRONES, ROBOT CARS COULD CAUSE MASSIVE JOB LOSS: UNION GROUP As reported by Stephanie Beasley in Bloomberg BNA A new federal committee will look at the potential for self-driving cars and other automated vehicle technologies to displace American workers in the future, among other issues. The Department of Transportation is slated to host the first […]
Limited Public Transit Options Still a Barrier to Upward Mobility, Says DOT, Union Group As reported by Stephanie Beasley Sixty years ago today, buses in Montgomery, Ala., were desegregated, effectively ending one of the nation’s most well-known civil rights protests—the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Civil rights activist Rosa Parks helped launch the year-long boycott when she […]
Trucking Industry Continues Push to Test Drivers’ Hair for Drugs As reported by Hassan A. Kanu in Bloomberg BNA Dec. 1 — The federal agency responsible for reducing substance abuse will likely miss a Dec. 4 deadline to set national guidelines allowing trucking companies to test their drivers’ hair follicles for drugs. The freight transportation […]