Affordable Care Act Deadline Set for March 31

As a Union member, you already have some of the best health care coverage on the market, however, your friends and family members may not.  The deadline to apply for health coverage through the Affordable Care Act is fast approaching. They have until March 31st to apply for a [...]

BNSF planning to add 5,000 workers in 2014

Fort Worth-based BNSF Railway plans to hire 5,000 workers this year as part of a $5 billion investment in the railroad, Carl Ice, the company’s new president and CEO, said this morning during an interview on CNBC. Ice, who recently took over the CEO post from Matt Rose, [...]

Americans do not want bigger trucks on highways

Constituents in Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky and eight congressional districts – Pa. Dist. 9, Iowa Dist. 3, Colo. Dist. 4, Kan. Dist. 1, Kan. Dist.  2, Ill. Dist. 13, Ind. Dist. 4 and Mo. Dist. 8 – overwhelmingly disapprove increasing truck weight limits from the current 80,0 [...]

Highway homicide affects railroads, too

This is about a highway homicide – and we know who dunnit. The perp long ago was identified by state and federal authorities. Yet Congress refuses to order the collar, closing its eyes to a mayhem playing out at every hour, on every federal-aid roadway and adversely affecting [...]

Great Lakes suspending more commercial flights

McCOOK, Neb. – Great Lakes Airlines will suspend its flights to and from McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport in southwestern Nebraska next month. Commercial air service will be suspended effective April 1 through April 27, Great Lakes Airlines announced Wednesday (March 12). T [...]

Benchmark BIM Software A Benefit to Small, Large Contractors Alike

The Benchmark building information modeling (BIM) training software has become a feather in the cap of unionized sheet metal education. Members can be trained and certified on the system, a three-dimensional collaborative drafting program that allows skilled union workers to [...]

FMCSA seeks electronic logbooks in bus industry

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) March 13 announced a proposal to require interstate commercial truck and bus companies to use Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) in their vehicles to improve complian [...]

Morr: Stop privatization, keep our tax dollars here

By Bonnie Morr, Vice President, Bus –  In December, I attended a school bus summit in Washington hosted by the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO. Though the topics of discussion centered around school bus issues, many were pertinent to our global bus community. [...]