The Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) administers the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, which provides two kinds of benefits for qualified railroaders: unemployment benefits for those who become unemployed but are ready, willing and able to work; and sickness benefits for those who are unable to work because of sickness or injury. Sickness benefits are also payable
Edward Wytkind, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), of which TCU is a member, issued a statement on the Comprehensive Transportation and Consumer Protection Act of 2015, introduced by Sen. John Thune (R-SD). President Wytkind said, “At a time when our country’s transportation infrastructure is failing and disenfranchised Americans are desperate for work,
Several state and local governments have been passing paid sick leave laws that may impact TCU members in those jurisdictions. For example, some of these laws require an employer in that jurisdiction to provide up to a certain number of days of paid sick leave, or that the employer allow employees to use accumulated sick
Edward Wytkind, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), of which TCU is a member, issued a statement on the consideration of the Amtrak Reauthorization bill: “We applaud Senators Roger Wicker and Cory Booker for working in a bipartisan fashion to craft a sensible Amtrak Reauthorization bill that will be considered by the Commerce
The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a nearly $55.7 billion bill funding the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development for the next fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1. The Senate version of the bill to fund transportation and housing programs would provide Amtrak with nearly $1.4 billion next year, much more than the amount
The National Mediation Board released from mediation the Unions representing the employees of New Jersey Transit (NJT). The unions, working together in the New Jersey Transit Rail Labor Coalition, immediately announced their intention to invoke a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB), which will make non-binding recommendations to settle the four-year-old contract dispute. The Coalition includes every
Railroad Retirement Act spouse and widow(er)s’ annuities (including divorced spouse, surviving divorced spouse and remarried widow(er)s’ annuities) are subject to reduction when social security benefits or dual railroad retirement annuities are also payable. Such railroad retirement benefits may also be reduced when a spouse or widow(er) is entitled to a public service pension unless certain
From Left to right; Local Chairman Chris Pierce, TCU National representative Carl Lakin, Local Representative Troy Meadows and Carmen Division General Vice President Don Grissom The BRC has reached an agreement with the Union Tank Car Company-UTLX on their new site, which will be adding 200 TCU jobs in Marion, OH. This Agreement, which was
Phil Martin of TCU Local 626 has reached 57 years of service with New Jersey Transit. Phil started work in 1955, at the age of 20, for the New York Central in Manhattan as a freight handler, moving freight between boxcars and highway trailers, and also off lighters onto the railroad’s Hudson River piers. In
“Transco” Local Lodge 6069’s 4th Annual Union Picnic was held on Saturday, June 13, 2015 at Platts Park in Oelwein, IA, and attended by BRC General Vice President, Don Grissom and Unit 600 Assistant National Representative, Bob Keppen. Group picture of the members and their families Left to right, ANR Bob Keppen, FST
