Reported by People’s World. Using safety of workers and communities as their main argument, two top railroad unions and the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department strongly argued for mandatory two-person crews…
…seeks access to a nearby competing freight railroad to cultivate a competitive pricing environment. A shipper gains that access at an interchange between the two railroads. Meanwhile, the railroads will…
…or lockout in three decades. After nearly three years of fruitless negotiations between a dozen labor unions and the railroads, the Biden Administration in July appointed a Presidential Emergency Board…
…the U.S. freight rail system of its resiliency to disruptions,” such as a weather disaster or the COVID pandemic. The pandemic reduced staffing further as the rail companies continue to…
…the engineers and conductors that drive and operate freight and passenger trains who will be most impacted by this proposed rule. In addition to our own comments, TTD endorses the…
Reported by Marco Raimondi for 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…
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…
…aerial drone deliveries, self-steering cargo ships have crossed our oceans [and] commercial trucking companies, with the apparent support of the U.S. Department of Transportation, look to eliminate their current single-person…
…Administration (FRA)’s proposed rule to require a minimum of two crewmembers on most freight and passenger trains and establish minimum requirements for the location of crewmembers on a moving train…
…concerns. President Joe Biden urged Congress to get involved because the potential economic damage that would come with a railroad strike was too great to bear, but their action left…