Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – Bus Department Alternate Vice President Calvin Studivant has been named by Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Administrator Anne Ferro to a 20-member congressionally created Motor Ca [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON — An assault on the future of Amtrak and its employees was launched June 15 by the chairman of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), and the chairman [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. MADISON, Wis. – A divided state supreme court here June 14 ruled in a 4-3 decision that the state’s controversial law revoking collective-bargaining rights for public employees may go into effect – overtu [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The UTU, Amtrak and other labor organizations have designed a survey to aid in the development of training and awareness programs to assist Amtrak employees deal with unruly, disorderly or aggressive pass [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – Increased authority for random safety inspections of tour buses and money for more safety inspectors received a lukewarm reception by the Republican leadership of the House Transportation &am [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. CHICAGO — Newspapers and television and radio stations here June 14 were asking Union Pacific, “Is this any way to run a railroad?” after a shortage of UP engineers caused the cancellation of six mo [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. PERRIS, Calif. – Bus drivers and mechanics of Southland Transit here have voted “UTU, yes” by an almost four-to-one margin. This is the 23rd organizing victory – air, bus and rail — for the UTU sinc [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. This is the new United Transportation Union official website. We’ve changed our look. This new website design responds to member requests for greater emphasis on materials and news of interest to UTU memb [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Working in a rail yard puts life, limbs and career at risk more than any other job. Members attending UTU regional meetings in San Antonio and New York have access to a yard-safety workshop – conducted i [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Would you accept a job paying $1 million to count out $2 billion in $1 bills? Think again, because working a 40-hour week and counting out $1 per second, you would require 266 years to count out the $2 bi [...]
