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Keep your heart healthy

February 2, 2011 February is American Heart Month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says heart disease is the leading cause of death among both men and women in the United States, claiming more lives than cancer. Heart disease can strike at any time. Symptoms of a heart-related [...]

FedEx Freight going intermodal

February 2, 2011 FedEx Freight, which is the nation’s largest stand-alone less-than-truckload carrier of freight, is going intermodal. Less-than-truckload, or LTL, is commonly defined as freight weighing more than 151 pounds and less than 20,000 pounds. LTL carriers collect these small [...]

Canadian Pacific has conductor job openings

February 1, 2011 Canadian Pacific Railway has job openings for qualified and experienced conductors at 14 Midwest locations. The locations are: Bensenville, Ill. Davenport, Iowa Elkhart, Ind. Enderlin, N.D. Harvey, N.D. Huron, S.D. Kansas City, Mo. Marquette, Iowa Mason City, Iowa Portage, Wi [...]

Receiving disability payments?

January 31, 2011 Members who received disability-claim payments from Anthem or Lincoln in 2010 will be receiving IRS W-2 forms from those insurers. This does not mean that the benefits are taxable. It is merely a reporting requirement of the IRS. The payments will be listed in Box 12 with a & [...]

Tags Anthem, disability, disability payments, IRS, Lincoln

Singing Puccini, she trades bus job for TV

January 31, 2011 Warning: Do not try this without your employer’s permission. That said, a bus driver in Geneva, Switzerland, has gained television stardom there for her singing while at the wheel, reports AFP international news service. The 49-year-old female driver, Maya Wirz, was giv [...]

Tags AFP, bus, bus driver, Maya Wirz, singing, TV, Wirz

UTU bus drivers unite in HIV/AIDS battle

January 31, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO — In this city, horribly devastated by HIV and AIDS, 24 members of UTU Local 1741 here are participating in a 565-mile bicycle trek to raise funds for support services and HIV prevention efforts. Twenty-four members of the school-bus local, under the leade [...]

Tags bicycle, bus drivers, charity event, HIV/AIDS battle, Local 1741, Team United First, unite

PEB likely on Boston commuter rail

January 31, 2011 BOSTON — A coalition of Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad (MBCR) unions, including those representing clerks, carmen, supervisors, signalmen and shopcraft workers, have been released by the National Mediation Board (NMB) from mediation. The release paves the way for a [...]

Tags BLET, mbcr, National Mediation Board, NMB, PEB, Presidential Emergency Board, Railway Labor Act, RLA

Railroads 2010: How sweet it was

January 28, 2011 How did major railroads perform in 2010? Reviewing their calendar-year and fourth-quarter profit statements, one wouldn’t know they were operating in the midst of a nationwide recession. Profits soared, stock dividends were raised and operating ratios improved. (Operati [...]

Tags BNSF, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, CN, CSX, economy, Kansas City Southern, KCS, Norfolk Southern, NS, profits, railroads, revenue, Union Pacific, UP

Shipper protection bills back in Senate

January 28, 2011 Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) have reintroduced legislation this Congress that would lasso railroad pricing power. S. 49, introduced by Kohl, would repeal some of the railroads’ antitrust exemptions. S. 158, introduced by Rockefeller and co-s [...]

Tags bills, Congress, senate, shipper protection, U.S. Surface Transportation Board

UTU goes to bat for Amtrak & its workers

January 28, 2011 Going to bat for Amtrak and its dedicated work force, UTU Alternate Legislative Director John Risch Jan. 27 outlined for the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee reasons why an intercity national rail passenger system is essential for Americans and worthy of cont [...]

Tags Amtrak, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, intercity national rail passenger system, John Risch, John Risch, Northeast Corridor