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March 14, 2022

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‘Completely demoralized’: US railroad workers pushed to the brink

Reported by Michael Sainato for the Guardian. Workers are under intense strain amid grueling schedules, union contract negotiations and an arcane attendance policy system American railroad workers are criticizing a new restrictive attendance policy at one of the largest railroad freight networks in the US, as they experience grueling schedules and labor cuts in the…
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March 9, 2022

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20 Unions Urge Transit Administration to Protect Transit Workers from Assault

WASHINGTON – Today, 20 labor organizations representing transit drivers and other transportation workers urged Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Administrator Nuria Fernandez to immediately implement the safety provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) to protect transit workers from assault. Four months after the passage of the BIL, the FTA has…
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March 9, 2022

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Transit worker unions call on safety agency to implement infrastructure law

Reported by Teaganne Finn for NBC News. The main federal transportation safety agency still has not enforced provisions in President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law that would protect workers as assaults on transit continue to trend up, a group of transit unions said Wednesday. “Our members include bus and rail transit operators, station agents, car cleaners,…
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March 8, 2022

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Railroad unions keep fighting BNSF’s new attendance rules

Reported by Josh Funk for AP News. The unions that represent roughly half of BNSF’s workers continue to fight against the railroad’s new attendance rules that they say penalizes them for missing work for any reason even though a judge has barred them from striking. The unions launched a petition drive this week and renewed…
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March 7, 2022

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Transportation Labor Applauds Historic Federal Investment in Workforce Training

WASHINGTON – Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), issued this statement in response to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s announcement of funding for the revised Low or No Emission Grant Program and the Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Program: “We applaud the Department of…
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March 1, 2022

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Transportation Labor Reacts to Biden’s State of the Union Address

WASHINGTON – Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), issued this statement in response to President Biden’s first State of the Union (SOTU) address to the nation: “From the passage of the American Rescue Plan to the biggest investment in infrastructure in our nation’s history, the first year of the…
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February 18, 2022

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Unions Urge DOJ to Protect Airline Passenger Service Agents

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A coalition of labor unions representing tens of thousands of airport passenger service agents, flight attendants, and other airline employees today urged Attorney General Merrick Garland to pursue federal criminal penalties against individuals who assault or interfere with passenger service agents. The coalition – which includes the Communications Workers of America (CWA),…
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February 17, 2022

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Labor groups urge Justice Dept. to ramp up prosecutions of unruly passengers.

As reported by Madeleine Ngo for the New York Times A coalition of labor unions representing tens of thousands of airline industry workers urged the Justice Department to step up its prosecutions of unruly passengers on Thursday. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, the group asked the department to pursue and prioritize…
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February 15, 2022

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Lawmakers at odds on how to handle guns at airport checkpoints

As Reported by Jessica Wehrman for Roll Call Republicans and Democrats demonstrated a fundamental disagreement Tuesday on how best to address skyrocketing numbers of weapons being confiscated at airport security checkpoints, with Republicans arguing for more education and Democrats more inclined to embrace higher penalties for offenders. While both parties agreed that the nearly 6,000…
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February 15, 2022

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U.S. House panel debates record number of guns found at airport checkpoints

As Reported by Jennifer Shutt for News from the States U.S. House members wrestled Tuesday with how to address a spike in travelers trying to bring firearms through airport screening points in carry-on bags. During 2021, Transportation Security Administration officers detected 5,972 firearms at checkpoints, 86% of which were loaded. That number was up from…
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