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Missouri Local 933 Helps Lead Caboose Restoration
The city of Pleasant Hill, Missouri, requested help from their community to restore a historic Missouri Pacific caboose on display in the town square. In response to this need for…
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NTSB Issues Preliminary Report on CSX Conductor Trainee Fatality
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its preliminary report for the investigation of the Aug. 6 accident involving a CSX conductor trainee fatally injured during a shoving movement…
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People News: STB, NS
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) appoints a labor representative to the Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory Council (RSTAC). Also, a Norfolk Southern (NS) employee has been chosen to Chair the Southern Economic…
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Ratified: UP, SMART-TD Paid Sick Leave Deal (UPDATED)
Union Pacific (UP) on Aug. 2 reported ratifying an agreement with the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD) to provide up to eight paid sick…
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NTSB Issues Preliminary Report on NS Coal Train Derailment
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its preliminary report for the investigation of Norfolk Southern’s (NS) July 6, 2023, coal train derailment near Elliston, Va. The agency said…
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CSX, SMART-TD Team to Extend Conductor Training Program
CSX and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers–Transportation Division (SMART-TD) on July 31 reported partnering to extend the Class I railroad’s conductor training program and…
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NS, SMART-TD Launch New Initiatives Aimed at Conductor Training
Norfolk Southern (NS) and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers—Transportation Division (SMART-TD) announced July 26 that they are partnering to launch several new initiatives to…
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Report: UP To Run Ground-Based Conductor Pilot Program
Union Pacific (UP) this summer will test the use of ground-based conductors in western Nebraska, between North Platte and Morrill, and in Colorado and Wyoming, between Denver and Cheyenne, according…
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NS Hosts Inaugural Safety-Focused Town Hall
Safety, union collaboration and “creating long-term value” were the three main topics of Norfolk Southern’s (NS) first company-wide town hall meeting. Held June 1 in Bellevue, Ohio, 20,000 railroaders from…
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Amtrak, NS Ratify Agreements With Unions
Following a year and a half of successful negotiations, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 19 has ratified an agreement with Amtrak. Meanwhile, members of the…
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UP, SMART-TD Ratify Agreement
Union Pacific (UP) and General 953, part of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers-Transportation Division (SMART-TD), have ratified a crew-consist agreement, maintaining two-person crews, SMART-TD…
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BNSF, SMART-TD Reach Tentative Agreements
BNSF on May 24 announced on LinkedIn that it has reached new tentative agreements with the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers-Transportation Division (SMART-TD) granting individual…
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NS, SMART-TD Reach Tentative Agreement on Workplace Enhancements
Norfolk Southern (NS) and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers–Transportation Division (SMART-TD) have reached a system-wide tentative agreement that would offer “a comprehensive suite of…
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For NS T&E Crews, More Time Off for Medical Visits (UPDATED)
Norfolk Southern (NS) is providing 7,500 craft railroaders additional time off for up to three scheduled routine and preventative medical visits, the Class I railroad reported in the “Story Yard”…
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UP, SMART-TD Reach Labor Agreement
Union Pacific (UP) on March 25 reported reaching a tentative crew-consist agreement with General 953, part of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers-Transportation Division (SMART-TD),…
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NS, SMART-TD Pause Conductor Redeployment Bargaining
Norfolk Southern (NS) and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers-Transportation Division (SMART-TD) on March 23 reported that they are discontinuing formal negotiations regarding conductor redeployment…
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SMART-TD Says “No”; BLET Ratifies (UPDATED Nov. 22)
Conductors and yard workers represented by the Transportation Division of International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD)—who constitute almost the full 30% of unionized rail employees…
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Rail Labor Update: A FUBAR Lurks
Although six of 12 rail labor unions have ratified amendments to contracts setting wages, benefits and work rules on most Class I railroads and many smaller ones, two unions—the Brotherhood…
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SMART-TD, BLET Leadership to Members: It’s Now Up To You
SMART-Transportation Division President Jeremy Ferguson on Sept. 30 issued an open letter to members stressing that a vote to ratify a tentative agreement struck with the carriers “is now yours.”…
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No Work Stoppage for Now
It took an all-night bargaining session in the Washington, D.C., offices of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, but as dawn approached Thursday, Sept. 15, three rail unions, representing almost 60% of…