The Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad plan to install inward-facing and outward-facing video cameras and audio recorders on most of their trains, MTA officials said. In response to calls from federal investigators for stepped-up safety measures on two of the busi [...]
Are you a truck driver or shift worker planning to catch up on some sleep this weekend? Cramming in extra hours of shut-eye may not make up for those lost pulling all-nighters, new research indicates. The damage may already be done – brain damage, that is, said neuroscientist [...]
Darrell Wade, sheet metal shop foreman at Pierce and Associates in Alexandria, Va., has been selected as a recipient of SMOHIT’s 2013 Safety Award, joining previous 2013 winners Kurt Christiansen of Southeastern Wisconsin, Ed Hoganson of St. Louis, Roger Fewkes of San D [...]
The federal government needs to do a top-to-bottom review of the Long Island Rail Road to see if it is “rotten” and rife with safety problems like its sister agency, the Metro-North Railroad, Sen. Charles Schumer said Tuesday, March 18. The Federal Railroad Administration las [...]
WASHINGTON – In its Fiscal Year 2015 budget request to Congress, Amtrak is seeking a change in federal passenger rail investment and warns that continuation of current funding levels leave Northeast Corridor infrastructure vulnerable to a bigger, costlier and far more damagin [...]
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, said [...]
In 2012, 50 workers at Greenbrier Rail Services in Tucson, Ariz., filed for a representational election to join the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association Local 359, now the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART). In re [...]
BISMARCK, N.D. – Great Lakes Airlines will be leaving North Dakota by the end of the month after serving the state for more than two decades. The Wyoming-based regional airline announced last week that it was suspending service to Dickinson and Williston. In January, it pulle [...]
By Joe Nigro, SMART General President – Recent news reports have been bleak when it comes to the status of working families in the United States. While much of the news focuses on unemployment, and rightly so, there’s a relatively unknown, legal way that corporations are goin [...]