{"id":8799,"date":"2011-03-01T20:39:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T20:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utu.org\/?p=8799"},"modified":"2011-03-01T20:39:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T20:39:04","slug":"signalmen-official-nominated-for-rrb-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/signalmen-official-nominated-for-rrb-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Signalmen official nominated for RRB seat","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
Walt Barrows, secretary-treasurer of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen since 1999, has been nominated by President Obama to fill the labor chair on the three-member Railroad Retirement Board, succeeding Butch Speakman, who is retiring.<\/p>\n
The nomination requires Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n
Barrows began his railroad career as a signalman with Norfolk & Western Railway (now part of Norfolk Southern) in 1974.<\/p>\n
Since 2004, Barrows has been the labor trustee of the National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust, a position earlier held by former UTU General Secretary and Treasurer Dan Johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Walt Barrows, secretary-treasurer of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen since 1999, has been nominated by President Obama to fill the labor chair on the three-member Railroad Retirement Board, succeeding Butch Speakman, who is retiring. The nomination requires Senate confirmation. Barrows began his railroad career as a signalman with Norfolk & Western Railway (now part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,45,9,18,25],"tags":[831,49,832,833],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n