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False rumors by competitors target UTUIA, DIPP

October 17, 2011 As the perfectly healthy man told the obituary editor of his local newspaper, “Reports of my demise are grossly exaggerated.” And so it is with the UTU Insurance Association (UTUIA) and the UTU’s Discipline Income Protection Plan (DIPP). Vicious and absolutely false rumors ar [...]

Tags DIPP, Discipline Income Protection Plan, UTUIA

House bill would help restore transit service, jobs

October 17, 2011 WASHINGTON – A bi-partisan bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives to bring financial relief to distressed transit systems and to help stem cuts in transit jobs and service. Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.) and Rep. Steve Latourette (R-Ohio) have introduced H.R. 32 [...]

Tags bus, Local Flexibilty for Transit Assistance Act, Russ Carnahan, Steve LaTourette, transit

2 rail properties, 1 bus property join UTU family

October 14, 2011 Rail and bus workers continue to call out to the United Transportation Union for representation in these troubling times. The UTU’s ability to negotiate industry-leading contracts, process grievances and achieve workplace safety improvements are most often cited as the reason [...]

Tags Columbia & Cowlitz Railway, First Transit, Iindustrial Switching and Services, IRSS, organizing, Patriot Rail, Patriot Woods Railroad

Daughter of former Colo. SLD Shaver dies

October 13, 2011 Janna Shaver, 49, daughter of retired Colorado State Legislative Director Jack Shaver, and his wife Barbara, died Oct. 10. Janna would have graduated from The University of Denver Law School next May. She is also survived by her sister, Lisa. Donations made in Janna’s h [...]

Tags colorado, dies, janna, shaver

Take note of prescription drug recall

October 13, 2011 Qualitest Pharmaceuticals has issued a voluntary nationwide recall of its oral contraceptive owing to a packaging error that could leave women at risk of an unintended pregnancy. Medco, which supplies many UTU members and family with prescription drugs, is notifying its patie [...]

Tags prescription drug recall

This is all about saving railroaders’ limbs and lives

October 12, 2011 During the first six months of 2011, 37 serious injuries occurred during switching operations, resulting in three fatalities and eight amputations; while over the past two years, five rail workers have died in accidents involving rolling rail equipment. The Switching Operatio [...]

Tags Federal Register, FRA, safety, SOFA

Arbitrator rules in favor of SMART merger

October 11, 2011 An arbitrator has ruled that a merger between the UTU and the Sheet Metal Workers International Association (SMWIA) be implemented and that the presidents of the two unions – or their designees — meet to decide how the implementation is to proceed. Arbitrator Michael H. [...]

Tags air, Judge John Bates, LMRDA, Michael H. Gottesman, Rail & Transportation, Sheet Metal, Sheet Metal Workers International Association, SMART, SMWIA

Annual health & welfare enrollment forms in mail

October 10, 2011 Annual health and welfare enrollment materials for railroad employees and/or dependents covered under the National Railway Carriers and United Transportation Union (NRC/UTU) Health and Welfare Plan are being mailed by UnitedHealthcare. (Those members covered under the nationa [...]

Tags NRC/UTU H&W plan, UnitedHealthcare

Obama names PEB to investigate rail labor dispute

October 6, 2011 WASHINGTON — A five-member Presidential Emergency Board was appointed by President Obama Oct. 6 to investigate and make non-binding recommendations in a dispute between 11 rail labor unions and the National Carriers’ Conference Committee, which represents BNSF, CSX, Kan [...]

Tags PEB, PEB No. 243, Presidential Emergency Board

Rail revenue adequacy faces challenge; stocks down

October 5, 2011 WASHINGTON – Individuals choose bank savings accounts based on the interest rate offered, assuming the investment is secure because no depositor has ever lost their principal on a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) backed account. By contrast, corporate investors must con [...]

Tags cost of capital, return on investment, revenue adequacy, STB, Surface Transportation Board