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Reported by Dan Zukowski for Smart Cities Dive In just four years, trains traveling nearly 200 mph could whoosh passengers between the entertainment capital of Las Vegas and the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. “When that starts to happen, people all across the country will say, ‘Why can’t we have this closer to where…

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Reported by AJ Hess for Fast Company From Maine to Texas, 45,000 dockworkers went on strike Tuesday after the International Longshoremen’s Association’s (ILA) contract with the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) expired. The two sides had reached a stalemate over pay, but also the union wanted a guarantee that technology would not be used to replace them.…

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Reported by Marybeth Luczak for Railway Age The Association of American Railroads (AAR), on behalf of its members, “requests relief required” to participate in the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS) Program, the FRA reported in the Federal Register’s Oct. 3 edition. All Class I railroads, through the AAR, committed to…

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Reported by Ted Mann for Bloomberg First it was the railroads. Then the autoworkers. Then the machinists on the airliner production line.If Joe Biden thought planes, trains and automobiles was enough labor strife for one presidency, the longshoremen of the United States would like a word. The fences are mostly mended between the Biden administration…

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Reported by Mark Gruenberg for People’s World Tens of thousands of East and Gulf Coast dockworkers shut down major American Ports at midnight Tuesday, Oct. 1 when they walked off the job, determined to fight for decent wages and to force their bosses to discuss automation. Picket lines from the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) went…

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Reported by America’s Work Force Radio Greg Regan, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to speak about an Artificial Intelligence Summit with Microsoft, high-speed rail projects and the Department of Labor’s Century of Service Honor Roll of American Labor Organizations. Regan spoke about an AI Labor Summit between…

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Reported by Max Parrott for Labor Press When labor leaders gathered at the Labor Press-organized “High-Speed Rail Construction” conference Sept. 5 to discuss expanding the future of rail on a national scale, the conversation focused on how pivotal the next few years will be for the future of the industry. Whether it’s projects in the…

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Reported by Construction Equipment Guide Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner joined U.S. Department of Transportation Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, Representative Joe Courtney, Connecticut Transportation Commissioner Garrett Eucalitto, and other state and local officials to celebrate the start of construction for Amtrak’s new Connecticut River Bridge between…

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