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Union leaders say UP cuts affect 118 employees at Bailey Yard
(Source: North Platte Telegraph, February 4, 2019) NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Furloughs and other job cuts over the past two weeks have affected 118 employees at the Union Pacific Railroad’s Bailey Yard in North Platte, according to interviews with several local union leaders at the world’s largest rail classification yard. Full story: North Platte Telegraph Tuesday,…
Read MoreQ&A: RRB reports performance under customer service plan
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, January 29, 2019) CHICAGO — The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board’s Customer Service Plan promotes the principles and objectives of customer-driven quality service agency-wide. The RRB’s plan lays out the standards and expresses the time frames in terms of when the agency is required to make its decision to pay or…
Read MoreTrump busts federal union
(Source: UComm Blog, January 29, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A little-known federal agency charged with protecting the right of government workers to organize is refusing to recognize its own union. Full story: www.ucommblog.com Monday, February 4, 2019
Read MoreWhile everyone was focused on the shutdown, the White House rolled back worker safety rules
(Source: Fortune, January 30, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump may have run his 2016 campaign as a champion of the working class, but his administration seems to be chipping away at worker protections. During the president’s 35-day partial shutdown of the federal government, the White House quietly dissolved a 2016 regulation requiring certain…
Read MoreTwo billionaires want to restore glory of U.S. passenger railroads
(Source: Bloomberg, February 1, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — When American industrialist Henry Flagler decided to add Miami as a stop on his east coast Florida railway in the 1890s, the watery settlement had just a few hundred inhabitants. More than a century later, the city has flourished but the American public’s love affair with trains…
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