LINCOLN, Neb. — Under pressure from a series of recent derailments and other rail disasters, including the explosive toxic fire in East Palestine, Ohio, the Federal Railroad Administration adopted April 2 a “Train Crew Size Safety Requirement” that will supposedly…
LINCOLN, Neb. — The bosses at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway announced Feb. 28 they were furloughing over 360 mechanical and rail-car inspectors, members of the International Association of Machinists and the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen. These workers inspect,…
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska would become the fourth state in the U.S. where prisoners subject to the death penalty would be suffocated to death by forcing them to breathe pure nitrogen gas under a bill introduced here by State Sen.…
LINCOLN, Neb. — Former Black Panther Party leader Ed Poindexter, who was framed up and imprisoned for 53 years, died Dec. 7 in a Nebraska prison at the age of 79. In the last few years, his family and supporters…
LINCOLN, Neb. — After Union Pacific Railroad bosses announced in October they were going to furlough 1,350 track-maintenance workers in the next month, Tony Cardwell, president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division union that organizes these workers,…
On Oct. 15, 30 cars on a loaded Burlington Northern coal train passing near Pueblo, Colorado, derailed and brought a bridge crashing down onto Interstate Highway 25. It crushed a semitruck, killing the driver. This was the 177th derailment reported…
OMAHA, Neb. — Rail workers and working people near the world’s largest rail yard, Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard in nearby North Platte, had another narrow escape Sept. 14. A series of uncontrolled explosions inside a shipping container in the yard…
Since the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment and fires contaminated East Palestine, Ohio, working people everywhere have been paying attention to the job conditions and life disruptions the bosses’ drive for profits inflicts on rail workers and their families. During…
LINCOLN, Neb. — Aug. 3 marked six months to the day that 150-car Norfolk Southern train 32N derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, causing a social disaster. The train was almost 2 miles long, weighing 18,000 tons. The derailment dumped 50…
LINCOLN, Neb. — There are thousands of rural towns across the U.S. crisscrossed by railroad tracks where trains pass through daily. Since the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment and burn-off of some 900,000 pounds of toxic vinyl chloride in East…
