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Clarifying Labor: RLA Should Be TLA

By Satish Jindel
The argument between FedEx and UPS over national labor law has brought great attention to the questions surrounding the Railway Labor Act and the National Labor Relations Act, the United States’
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IBEW Workers Ratify Canadian National Contract
07 Feb 2013
Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers System Council 11 at Canadian National Railway have ratified a four-year labor collective agreement that provides improvements in wages and benefits for CN signal and communications employees.
 
BNSF Signs Agreement With OSHA to Resolve Whistle-Blower Complaints
16 Jan 2013
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed an agreement with Fort Worth, Texas-based BNSF Railway announcing BNSF’s voluntary revision of several personnel policies.
 
Transportation Workers Welcome Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill
18 Dec 2012
Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, today urged the U.S. Senate to pass the pending Hurricane Disaster Relief Appropriations Act to help regions affected by...
Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive.
 
CP, Maintenance Workers Reach Tentative Accord
11 Dec 2012
The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, Maintenance of Way Division, representing 2,600 track maintenance workers, and Canadian Pacific Railway today reached a tentative five-year contract settlement...
 
Strike Paralyzes Transportation in Argentina
20 Nov 2012
Argentina has been hit with a 24-hour general strike affecting ports, airports, trains and road transportation.
 
Logistics Hiring Gap Growing Toward 200,000 Workers, Study Suggests
19 Nov 2012
About 270,200 logistics jobs will be created each year in the U.S. between 2012 and 2018, according to a study from the Georgia Center of Innovation for Logistics, a division of the state’s economic development department. But U.S. vocational schools, colleges and universities are only producing about 75,280 formally trained, degreed or certified workers a year qualified for those jobs, the study found.
 
Canadian Pacific Railway, Signal Workers Reach Tentative Deal
15 Nov 2012
Canadian Pacific and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, System Council 11, today reached a tentative five-year labor agreement covering about 450 employees who maintain and install railway signals...
 
Transport Employment Up 2.2 Percent in October
02 Nov 2012
Transportation and warehousing employment increased 2.2 percent in October from a year ago, but was essentially flat from the previous month.
 
South Africa's Transnet Faces Possible Strike
08 Oct 2012
South Africa’s Transnet is preparing for a possible strike of rail and port workers,
 
Transport Employment Up 1.9 Percent in August
07 Sep 2012
Transportation and warehousing employment increased 1.9 percent year-over-year in August, the same rate as in July, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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