Last year’s Amtrak agreements covering Carmen and ARASA-MofE and ARASA-MofW employees stipulated that Amtrak’s back pay obligations would be split into two parts, with Amtrak having one year to make good on the second payment. Amtrak President Joe Boardman has just announced that the second Amtrak retroactive payment will be made on May 1, 2009.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known as the stimulus act, contains many provisions that affect railroad workers. Forefront of these is the additional 13 weeks of unemployment benefits to qualifying railroad workers who have exhausted the benefits normally provided under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (RUIA). The stimulus package also will
February 12, 2009– The Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks members, represented by TCU Unit 3, have ratified an agreement by an overwhelming margin. This agreement will run through 2012 and settles TCU’s outstanding Section 6 notices concerning wages, rules and working conditions. This agreement will also provide the same level of health and welfare benefits
Amtrak President Joe Boardman sent a letter to the President of the Senate Joe Biden (D-DE) and the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to ask congress to provide enough funding for Amtrak to pay its contractual obligations in 2009. The back pay, recommendations of the presidential emergency board, agreements Amtrak made in 2008
TCU and 10 other rail unions have won an arbitration award that will make the carriers change existing FMLA policies. The award states that the carriers’ substitution of FMLA leave for paid vacation and personal leave is a violation of the vacation and personal leave sections of the national collective bargaining agreement. No longer will
Major stories from the 2009 TCU Convention Healthcare A Main Focal Point of President Scardelletti at Convention Click here for more. Re-election of International Officers Click here for more. Rich Trumka Addresses TCU Convention Click here for more. Carmen Elections Show Pride and Unity Click here for more. Click here to view the July 28 Convention Summary. Click here to
October 31, 2008—The Department of Transportation has been stopped, at least for the time being, from implementing a regulation that would require certain employees to be observed while collecting a urine specimen for drug testing. The U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia today issued a temporary stay preventing the DOT from putting the
Union workers earn higher wages and get more benefits than workers who don’t have a voice on the job with a union. Here’s the most recent Union Advantage flyer with the facts and figures.
Clerical Agreement Clerical Protective Agreement Ore Docks Agreement Ore Docks Protective Agreement Ore Docks and Clerical Contracts at DMIR Ratified by Local 319 Membership July 28, 2008—In Duluth, Minnesota, two agreements have been reached and ratified by members of Local 319 employed by the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company. Ratification of the DM&IR
February 14, 2008—Settlement has been reached for members covered by the BNSF Manitoba Limited Agreement. The pact, which extends to December 31, 2010, was signed for the union by Unit 46 International Representative Larry Swanson this date.
