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…
MONTREAL —Canada’s two major railroads — Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City — both filed a “notice of dispute” with the federal government Feb. 16, making it clear that the rail bosses intend to wage a combined fight against…
ATLANTA — Two rail workers were killed on the job in the past month in Alabama and North Carolina. In a Feb. 15 statement, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division-International Brotherhood of Teamsters union said Brother Randall M.…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — For rail workers, “East Palestine was no surprise,” Jared Cassity, director of safety for the SMART-TD rail workers union, told a video conference of rail union officers two days before the Feb. 3 one-year anniversary of…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — One year ago on Feb. 3 a Norfolk Southern train derailed and some 50 rail cars went on the ground here, including 11 cars of hazardous chemicals, five of which were loaded with toxic vinyl chloride.…
LIVINGSTON, Ky. — “The smoke was so thick you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face,” said Andrea Johnson. “I’ve had migraines, sores in my nose and throat, and stomach pain.” Johnson and other workers who live in…
MONTREAL — After a series of deadly accidents, the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration issued a recent “advisory” urging rail bosses to expand use of technology to deal with the increased danger of operating in adverse weather conditions. According to the…
Dozens of track workers, members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes union, held two protests Nov. 15 — one outside the headquarters of the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad in Hammond, Indiana, and the other at the U.S. offices…
LIVINGSTON, Ky. — Residents in this central Kentucky town of 200 were told to evacuate Nov. 22 after 16 cars on a CSX freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed just north of here. Two of the cars were transporting molten…
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,…
