Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Risch WASHINGTON — New jobs building and operating high-speed rail “are American jobs that can’t be shipped overseas and would be a Godsend in this economic downturn,” UTU Alternate National Legisla [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) reports the following criminal actions involving officers of various locals, divisions and general committees within the BLET, BMWE, B [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – A former official with three bus operators employing UTU members has been elected president and CEO of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), which represents bus and transit [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The August sun can be dangerous, and protecting your skin should be a high priority. Although this is a year-round issue, overexposure to sun and its dangers occurs most during the summer. When skin is ex [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Morr By BONNIE MORR Alternate Vice President, Bus Department Bus Department workshops at the San Antonio and New York regional meetings were among the most informative in many years, and reflect the promi [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Voting packages for the tentative national rail contract were mailed Friday, Aug. 12, to UTU members eligible to vote. The balloting period will extend for 21 days to 4 p.m., Eastern time, Friday, Sept. 2 [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON — The Railway Mail Service is no more, but the pooch who, more than a century ago, served as a mascot and protector to those who sorted the mail aboard Railway Post Office (RPO) cars has gained [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The likelihood of 300-mph magnetic levitation trains operating in the United States anytime soon took another body blow in July when a private-sector firm planning a maglev route in Pennsylvania filed for [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Witnesses say it’s a grey sedan. A grey four-door sedan — occupied by two men. A grey four-door sedan occupied by two men that shows up at railroad facilities. The men claim to work for the Federal [...]
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Following negotiation of the tentative national rail contract, general chairpersons submitted questions about the contract that were relayed by the International to the National Carriers’ Conference [...]
