TTD in the news

Reported by Railfreight.Com. The last few weeks in the United States have been quite chaotic when it comes to the future of rail workers. Since institutions have not seemed to find effective solutions for a collective agreement, rail freight companies in the country are taking it upon themselves to try and help their employees. Rail…

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Reported by Michael Sainato for The Guardian. Railroad workers and unions are ramping up pressure on the US Congress and Joe Biden to address poor working conditions in the wake of the recent move to block a strike when Congress voted to impose a contract agreement. Workers and labor activists in America have criticized that…

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Reported by Joanna Marsh for Freightwaves. Railroads and unions gave conflicting views during a hearing by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on a proposed rulemaking that would require freight trains generally to have at least two crew members in the locomotive cab. The agency is gathering public testimony through next week. Here are some key…

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Reported by Josh Funk for AP News. Railroad workers who are fed up with demanding work schedules and disappointed in the contract they received aired their frustrations this week at rallies across the country and in a leadership vote at one of their biggest unions. Workers gathered in Washington D.C. and nearly a dozen other…

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Reported by Marco Raimondi for RailFreight.Com. The Transportation Trades Department (TTD) said that rail workers will rally in front of the US Capitol on Tuesday, 13 December, between 1 and 3 pm (GMT -5). The initiative will take place to address the issues within the freight rail industry that are causing general discontent among the…

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Reported by Joanna Marsh for Freightwaves. The drama about whether union members would go on strike has passed, with Congress passing legislation and President Joe Biden signing that legislation requiring all unions to ratify the labor agreement that union and railroad negotiators reached in September. But the battle scars still remain and those scars must…

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Reported by Darrell Berkheimer for The Union.  Yes, the federally-suppressed rail strike would have created economic chaos and cost Americans billions of dollars daily. But have we neglected to identify the culprits that created reasons for the strike? The forced settlement cheats many rail employees of needed sick leave and fails to adequately address bare-bones…

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Reported by Peter Coy for The New York Times. (Opinion) I haven’t operated a railroad since I got a Lionel train set for Christmas decades ago, but even I can see that something is wrong. Railroads in North America are struggling to keep trains moving. Shippers are furious over delays. Workers are unhappy about inflexible…

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MSNBC Video. President of the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO Greg Regan joins to share how the rank-and-file rail workers are reacting to the bill signed by President Biden set to avert a nationwide rail strike, which doesn’t include paid sick time.

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Reported by Sarah Zimmerman for SupplyChainDive. President Joe Biden on Friday signed legislation imposing a labor agreement on rail workers, avoiding a national strike or lockout that was expected to cost the economy $2 billion a day. “A rail shutdown would have devastated our economy,” the president said at a bill signing event. “Without freight…

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