LIRR, SMART heading back to bargaining table

Long Island Rail Road union leaders and MTA managers will meet Friday for their first face-to-face contract negotiation session in nearly two months, five weeks before a possible strike that could strand 300,000 daily commuters, a key union official and an MTA source said. &# [...]

Organizing is good for SMART and good for America

By John Previsich, SMART Transportation Division President –  Organizing – it is good for you, for our members, for our union and also for America. Those of us who enjoy the benefits of working as organized labor are acutely aware of the value that our membership in the union [...]

Judge orders early voting hours be restored in Ohio

Judge Peter Economus of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ruled Wednesday, June 11 in favor of a motion for summary judgment to permanently maintain the final three days of early voting. “In-person early voting is restored on the three days immed [...]

Railroads want to hit brakes on oil train safeguards

The railroad industry is warning the White House against some potential safety rules for trains carrying explosive crude oil, saying freight and passenger rail traffic could be disrupted for years if companies must obey 30 mph speed limits, install more sophisticated brakes a [...]

House votes against California high speed rail

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans this week are trying to drive another spike, or two, into the heart of California’s high-speed rail program. Daring a presidential veto, GOP lawmakers are deploying a Fiscal 2015 transportation funding bill to effectively block the [...]

Union grocer opens in Wisconsin

United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1473 has announced that a 100 percent union grocer, Metro Markets, opened in Madison, Wisconsin Tuesday, June 10. In celebration and support, the union has asked that union households show their support for the new store by wear [...]

Oklahoma Sheet Metal Workers Launch Innovative Development Program

At the training center for Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 124 in Oklahoma City, committee members and training director Trent London grew tired of hearing “I’m just a sheet metal worker” as an excuse for apprentices’ unprofessional behavior. To change the mentality, they sough [...]