Union Pacific, BLET sue each other over new attendance policy

(Source: Courthouse News Service, February 14, 2020)

CHICAGO — Union Pacific Railroad and Chicago union workers sued each other on Friday over the implementation of a new attendance policy and the prospect of a strike. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen asked the federal court in Northern Illinois for an injunction against a new attendance policy that would go into effect on March 1. The workers claimed that “without first bargaining to an impasse,” Union Pacific would violate the Railway Labor Act by implementing the policy.

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Friday, February 21, 2020