Category: Front Page — TD
Transportation-oriented posts to appear on the front page of the main site and in news feeds.
TD GO-386 gets arbitration win over attempted BNSF pool consolidation, other work-rule changes
An arbitrator’s recent decision in a Public Law Board case brought by the SMART Transportation Division against BNSF resulted in a victory over the carrier. In September 2017, BNSF unilaterally altered the working conditions for SMART-TD members in GO-386, who serve in and ar [...]
“We won’t back down!”
SMART-TD, BLET protest outside of BNSF shareholder meeting in Omaha While Berkshire Hathaway shareholders sat April 30 in comfort and national cable-news networks live-streamed and deified wealth hoarder Warren Buffett and his executive cronies at the company’s annual meeting [...]
Talking SMART: Member Brings Voice of Working Families to CT Statehouse
Over the next two episodes of Talking SMART – the official podcast of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation workers – hosts Paul Pimentel and Ben Nagy talk with SMART members who have successfully run for local or state public office, disc [...]
CBC unions reject lump-sum offers, seek proffer of arbitration
The Coordinated Bargaining Coalition released the following statement on April 25, 2022: On January 24, 2022, after more than two years of bargaining with the major U.S. Class I railroads, the 10 Rail Unions bargaining as part of the Coordinated Bargaining Coalition (CBC) ann [...]
Join the NALC Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive
On Saturday, May 14, the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will hold its traditional Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive – its 30th and the first in-person since 2019 (due to the pandemic, NALC conducted online donor drives the last two years). Participation is simple: O [...]
Q&A with TD Chief of Staff Jerry Gibson on training
The Transportation Division chief of staff discusses the shift in the union's educational and meeting strategy going forward.
FRA admin: Train length a factor in considering crew-size rule
Federal Railroad Administrator Amit Bose last week addressed a shippers’ conference and said that part of his agency’s rationale in approaching a minimum crew size rulemaking will be taking into consideration the carriers’ use of longer trains, Trains Magazine reported April [...]