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Opinion by Jennifer Rubin for The Washington Post. As a former labor lawyer, I can attest that when heading into the final hours of a labor negotiation, after months if not years of haggling, both parties can be frustrated, tired and angry. The intervention of a third-party mediator can therefore be critical to avoid a…

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Reported by Caitlin Harrington for Wired. EARLY THIS SUMMER, farmers worried that millions of chickens in California’s Central Valley might soon peck each other to death. The birds were running perilously low on feed, which should have been delivered by Union Pacific Railroad from Midwestern corn producers. Foster Farms needed at least nine trainloads of…

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Reported by Mark Gruenberg for People’s World. Crunch. And a shortage of everything. That’s the warning rail union leaders are sending to consumers as the nation approaches the holiday season. Expect, they said, a repeat of last year’s fiasco, where gifts were delayed for weeks or months as cargo ships backed up outside the Port…

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America’s Work Force Union Podcast. AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department President Greg Regan joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast and provided an update on the impasse reached by major railroads and their unions that had been turned over for moderation by President Biden’s Presidential Emergency Board. The board released its recommendations, which the unions are…

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Reported by Sarah Zimmerman for Supply Chain Dive. A labor dispute board appointed by the Biden administration proposed railroads raise wages by 24% over the course of a five-year contract, a major step toward resolving a negotiation stalemate that carriers say has made it harder to retain workers and address service declines. The Presidential Emergency…

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Reported by Kari Hamanaka for Sourcing Journal. Surface Transportation Board (STB) chair Marty Oberman didn’t sound optimistic Friday about the state of rail , but vowed the STB is doing what it can to right mounting railroad congestion issues. “We’re using every tool that we have available at the board to oversee this and to…

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Reported on Newsy YouTube. TTD President Greg Regan joined Newsy’s Morning Rush to discuss the latest on the national labor fight between freight railroad workers and their employers. August 12, 2022

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Reported by William Padmore for Nebraska Public Media. Freight rail workers are threatening to strike pending ongoing contract negotiations with the carriers they work for. If a strike does happen, roughly 116,000 workers will bring freight rail in the country to a halt, bringing difficulties to an already suffering supply chain. Railroads are a critical…

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Reported by Todd von Kampen for the North Platte Telegraph. Bailey Yard workers are more prone to give up on railroading after three years of layoffs followed by COVID-19, a North Platte rail union leader told an AFL-CIO virtual “town hall” last week. Mike Gage, president of Local 1920 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical…

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Reported by Mark Gruenberg for People’s World. As the nation’s railroad worker unions presented their details for a new contract with the freight railroads to a Presidential Emergency Board, rank-and-file workers, upset with no contract since before the coronavirus pandemic, rallied with their leaders in Galesburg, Ill., to demand one. And they picked up wide…

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