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Pa. school bus employees pick up three-year deal

October 8, 2014 SMART Transportation Division members employed by First Student, Inc., in Southeastern Pennsylvania have ratified a new three-year contract, retroactive to June 2014. The contract covers SMART members of Local 172 at Darby, Pa., working in school bus operations until June 30, [...]

Tags Calvin Studivant, Denise Hall, First Student, Kathleen Sitongia, Local 172, Theresa Costantini

BNSF ordered to pay $30k for retaliation

October 8, 2014 DENVER – Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC retaliated against a Mandan, North Dakota, worker in December 2013 after he reported a work-related injury and submitted a physician’s treatment plan, according to an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupat [...]

Tags BNSF, OSHA

The Truth About the ABC

October 7, 2014 The Associated Builders and Contractors, a strongly anti-union, anti-worker contractor group, has lobbied against improvements in workplace standards and jobsite safety for years while keeping construction workers’ wages depressed. When its not lobbying against the hir [...]

BNSF to invest $235M in Washington state

October 7, 2014 BNSF Railroad will invest $235 million in its system in Washington state this year, nearly double the amount invested in 2013. This suggests that the company is continuing to upgrade a system that supported $28.5 billion in state economic activity, according to a study releas [...]

Tags BNSF Railway, coal, Washington

Rail groups push feds to drop Bakken oil rule

October 7, 2014 WASHINGTON — Two railroad industry trade groups have quietly asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to drop its requirement that rail carriers transporting large volumes of Bakken crude oil notify state emergency officials. The railroads have maintained that they already [...]

Tags American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association, Association of American Railroads, crude oil, FRA

Freight train drivers report falling asleep on the job

October 7, 2014 Train operators in Canada’s burgeoning freight rail industry report falling asleep at the controls and coming to work exhausted at an alarmingly high rate, according to an ongoing CBC News investigation into rail safety. “I have had instances where I have just snapped back in [...]

Tags Canadian National, engineer, fatigue

Scorecards

October 6, 2014 House Senate

Members at Terminal Railroad ASD approve contract

October 6, 2014 SMART Transportation Division-represented trainmen and yardmasters employed by the Terminal Railroad Alabama State Docks have ratified a new six-year agreement by an overwhelming majority. The new agreement provides for six, three percent annual general wage increases retroac [...]

Tags contract, Terminal Railroad Alabama State Docks

Lake Terminal Railroad employees ink six-year deal

October 6, 2014 SMART Transportation Division-represented trainmen, engineers and yardmasters employed by Lake Terminal Railroad have ratified a new six-year agreement by a unanimous vote. The agreement provides for six annual wage increases, beginning July 1, 2013, and rolls in previous cos [...]

Tags contract, Lake Terminal Railroad

Train derails in Mer Rouge, La., two injured

October 6, 2014 Update: KNOE 8 News has learned that the two railroad employees injured in Sunday’s train derailment are now both being treated for their injuries in a Shreveport hospital. Mer Rouge Police Chief Mitch Stevens says the train engineer has a compound fracture to his leg [...]

Tags derailment, engineer, Union Pacific