Arbitration
Arbitrator approves replacing American crews with Mexican crews in Laredo
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, August 6 — A three-year contract struggle against actions by Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCS) and its affiliate Texas Mexican Railway (Tex-Mex) to replace BLET-represented crews that shuttled trains between Laredo Yard and the U.S.–Mexico border concluded on August 4th, when a majority of a Special Board of Adjustment (SBA) ruled in…
Read MoreRail suppliers raise concerns about INVEST Act
(Source: Progressive Railroading 06/23/2020) Two rail supplier groups last week announced mixed reactions to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s (T&I) multiyear surface transportation legislation known as the INVEST in America Act. Both the Railway Supply Institute (RSI) and the National Railroad Construction & Maintenance Association (NRC) expressed support for the committee taking up a surface transportation package, especially with…
Read MoreDiscipline & Social Media
(Source: Conference Reporter Newsletter 04/04/2019) At the conference in Tampa, a nationally-known labor arbitrator gave a lecture on social media. Here are four take-aways. You posted it, you live with itThis aphorism refers to the following doctrine: reasonable expectation of privacy. The Supreme Court created this doctrine as a way to draw the line on…
Read MoreInvestigation Requirements
(Source: Conference Reporter Newsletter 03/21/2019) If you were advising someone on investigating their first case, it should include the following points. The advice is from a long-time labor arbitrator who is the umpire under several national agreements. It is from a lecture that he gave this month in Chicago. 1. This is what I recommend: …
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