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Memorial Day is About Respect
and Remembrance |
The working men and women of the AFL-CIO join the Union Veterans Council to wish all a safe Memorial Day weekend. This is a time to respect and remember those who gave their lives for the bedrock freedoms of our nation.
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| NTSB: Inadequate Planning and Training Led to Fatal Amtrak Derailment |
Failure to provide effective mitigation of a hazardous curve and the inadequate training of the locomotive engineer led to the deadly derailment of an Amtrak train near Dupont, Washington, in late 2017, the National Transportation Safety Board(NTSB) announced yesterday.
Three of 77 passengers were killed and 65 others were injured on Dec.
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Amtrak, NJ Transit to invest $31M
in Northeast Corridor |
Amtrak and New Jersey Transit announced a joint $31 million investment to improve railroad infrastructure along the Northeast Corridor (NEC) in New Jersey and conduct renewal work throughout spring and summer.
As part of the investment, Amtrak crews on May 20, 2019, will begin a block tie replacement program at Newark Penn Station.
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| BRS Members Reach Five Year Contract with Siemens Mobility Inc. |
BRS Local 234 members employed by Siemens Mobility, Inc. (formally Siemens Rail Automation), have ratified a new 5-year contract. The Agreement was ratified on April 24, 2019, in Louisville, Kentucky, after a Special Local Meeting was called by Local President, James Amburgey, II. The new agreement becomes effective June 1, 2019, and terminates on May 31, 2024.
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| Workers Memorial Day 2019 |
Each year on April 28, unions including the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen recognize Workers Memorial Day and remember American workers who were injured or killed in on-the-job accidents. We commemorate and honor these workers and renew the fight for safe workplaces.
This year we will come together to call for action on hazards that cause unnecessary injury, illness and death.
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Stand with UFCW Members as
They Fight for a Fair Contract |
At Stop & Shop supermarkets across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island 31,000 workers have gone on strike.
Management at Stop & Shop presented its “final offer” to workers, which included significant cuts to health care, massive increases (more than 100% in some cases) to workers’ health care premiums and replacing wage increases with so-called bonuses.
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| Today in Labor History |
April 10, 1880 — Birth date of Frances Perkins, named Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first woman to hold a cabinet-level office.
April 10, 1917 — A total of 133 people, mostly women and girls, are killed when an explosion in the loading room tears apart the Eddystone Ammunition Works in Eddystone, Pa., near Chester.
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