Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) President Greg Regan last week wrote to U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) to oppose the lawmaker’s bill that would eliminate a federal provision that gives Amtrak trains the "right of preference" over freight trains on freight-owned track.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS) participated alongside 37 affiliate unions in the Transportation Trades Department (TTD), AFL-CIO Fall 2023 Executive Committee Meeting, addressing critical issues in the Transportation Industry.
[November 13, 2023]
Dear President Biden:
On behalf of the undersigned national rail labor unions, we write to unanimously recommend and support Johnathan D. Bragg to be re-nominated to serve as the Labor Member on the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB). He has demonstrated excellent service on the Board for the last four years since his confirmation in early 2019, and we request that he be nominated for another term to serve on the Board.
[November 17, 2023, SACRAMENTO, Calif.] – The California High-Speed Rail Authority and 13 rail labor unions announced today that they have entered an agreement that ensures the hard-earned gains in federal labor laws will be applicable to the operations of the nation’s first high-speed rail project.
The entirety of rail labor stands in opposition to the proposed draconian funding cuts in the legislation that would devastate U.S. passenger and freight rail networks and the dedicated rail workers that run them.
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