TTD in the news

Reported by Michael Sainato for the Guardian. Monique Rondon, a bus operator in New York City for 23 years, has been spat on and assaulted several times on the job. Now transit workers and labor unions across America are sounding the alarm over the trend of violence, assaults, and abuse that workers in the transportation…

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Reported by Joanna Marsh for Freightwaves. The debate about how to manage visual inspections in the face of advances in safety technology continues. This time it’s railroad carmen defending the importance of visual inspections for brake testing and maintenance. Union members are responding to Union Pacific’s request to the Federal Railroad Administration to extend a…

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Reported by Taylor Kuykendall for S & P Global. The question of a national rail shutdown may be up to Congress this fall, as tensions mount between railways and unions, even as legal remedies fail. Unions and railroad carriers have been locked in negotiations over wages, benefits and workplace rules since a collective bargaining round…

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As reported by the Stand. After more than two years of fruitless negotiations with the various Class 1 railroads and three weeks of in-person contract talks in Washington, D.C., the National Mediation Board (NMB) on Tuesday declared that a voluntary agreement is not within reach and offered binding arbitration to rail unions. The unions representing…

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Reported by Joanna Marsh for Freightwaves. A new labor agreement between U.S. freight railroads and the railroad unions may not appear anytime soon, both sides hinted late Tuesday following a federal regulator’s decision to halt mediation efforts. Freight railroads, including the Class I railroads, and the railroad unions have been embroiled in disagreements over a…

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Reported by Frank Wilner for Railway Age. The National Mediation Board (NMB) on June 14 set in motion a ticking time bomb toward an economy-jolting national railroad shutdown within 90 days, its two Democratic members agreeing with rail labor—and over the remonstrance of carriers and the NMB’s lone Republican—that a voluntary agreement to amend unionized…

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Reported by Joanna Marsh for Freightwaves. The Federal Railroad Administration is now requiring the Class I railroads, Amtrak and commuter railroads to include fatigue risk management plans as part of their larger system safety and risk reduction programs. The rule was published Monday in the Federal Register. The Federal Railroad Administration will review the plans…

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Reported by Marybeth Luczak for Railway Age. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on June 13 published in the Federal Register a final rule on “Fatigue Risk Management Programs for Certain Passenger and Freight Railroads.” The Commuter Rail Coalition (CRC) and Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) respond. “Under the regulation, Class I freight railroads, Amtrak and…

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Reported by Trains. The Federal Railroad Administration has issued its new rule on railroad fatigue management, set for formal publication on Monday, and at least one rail union leader has offered a positive response. The final rule, “Fatigue Risk Management Programs for Certain Passenger and Freight Railroads,” is available here for public inspection. Following its…

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Reported by Elliot Robinson for Global Railway Review. Amtrak have received a grant from the FRA which will allow the company to train over 600 employees in its new apprenticeship programme. It has been announced that Amtrak have received a Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) $8 million grant which will enable Amtrak to advance its new…

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