{"id":40501,"date":"2017-03-22T09:28:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T13:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/?p=40501"},"modified":"2017-03-22T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T13:28:06","slug":"rail-labor-speaks-fra-denies-csx-bid-remove-track-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/rail-labor-speaks-fra-denies-csx-bid-remove-track-signals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail coalition rallies; FRA denies CSX bid to remove track signals","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
A collective of rail unions and Michigan citizens lobbied the FRA to deny a CSX request that would discontinue use of vital safety signals along a busy freight rail line in Michigan \u2013 and won.<\/strong> A collective of rail unions and Michigan citizens lobbied the FRA to deny a CSX request that would discontinue use of vital safety signals along a busy freight rail line in Michigan \u2013 and won. SMART Transportation Division, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, \u00a0Brotherhood of Maintenance Way Employees and the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":6,"featured_media":24208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,31,12,9,18,1,25,119],"tags":[88,175,3383,3455,3615,3467],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nSMART Transportation Division, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, \u00a0Brotherhood of Maintenance Way Employees and the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen successfully rallied the FRA to block CSX\u2019s bid to discontinue the traffic control system (TCS) along the Michigan rail line that connects Grand Rapids, Lansing and Detroit.
\nClick here<\/a> to read FRA\u2019s letter of denial to CSX.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"