TTD in the news

Reported by Beth Ann Miller for Beaver County News Rep. Chris Deluzio and several other legislators are urging their colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate to finally pass legislation for stronger train safety regulations on the third anniversary of the Norfolk Southern train derailment disaster that has affected communities around East

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Reported by Sarah Robles and Kaitlyn McCarthy for WFMJ Exactly three years after the East Palestine train derailment in February of 2023, members of Congress met in Washington, D.C., to urge leaders to pass the proposed Railway Safety Act & Common Sense Rail Safety Measures legislation. “Too often, firefighters arrive at train derailments with limited information

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Reported by Laura Linder for CBS News “When you look at the direction where safety is going on class one railroads, it should be alarming. It would be alarming in any other industry,” said Greg Regan, president of the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO. Mike Baldwin is the president of the Brotherhood of Railroad

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Reported by Zach Williams for Bloomberg Government Transportation Call for Rail Safety Legislation: Organized labor is demanding action on rail safety legislation three years after a Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, and spewed toxic chemicals all over the place. Railroads face higher fines for mishandling hazardous cargoes under bipartisan legislation (H.R. 928)

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Reported by Liz Carey for Transportation Today Legislation introduced in Congress by U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and John Hoeven (R-ND) seeks to make protections for passenger rail crewmembers similar to those afforded to flight crew members. The legislation is supported by SMART Union, Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO

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Reported by Railway Supply A notice published in the Federal Register on Jan. 13 restored the committee’s charter, according to the Federal Register notice on the RSAC charter reestablishment. The committee’s website says its work is meant to align participants around the facts and data behind real or perceived safety problems, develop cost-effective solutions rooted

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Reported by Zach Williams for Bloomberg Government Morning Transportation Slimmed-Down Rail Panel: The Federal Railroad Administration is bringing back an advisory committee on safety, but with 25 members rather than the 50 it had before, Williams reports.“It’s difficult to see how this skinny version of the safety committee will allow FRA to maintain a balanced

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Reported by Zach Williams for Bloomberg Government A looming $85 billion deal to form the nation’s first transcontinental freight railroad is dividing organized labor as a federal body considers a merger application filed Dec. 19 by Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. Unions supporting the proposed deal before the nominally independent Surface Transportation Board

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Reported by Mike Schuler for gCaptain Maritime labor organizations welcomed the confirmation. In a joint statement, the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association, American Maritime Officers, the International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots, the Seafarers International Union, the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, and the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO expressed confidence in the new administrator. “Stephen

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Reported by Newsroom Panama WASHINGTON:  Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), issued the following statement in support of the Unión de Capitanes y Oficiales de Cubierta (UCOC – Panamanian Tugboat Captains’ Union), an affiliate of TTD’s member union, the International Organization of Masters, Mates, & Pilots

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