Without fanfare, President George W. Bush on October 16, 2008 signed into law H.R. 2095, the rail safety and Amtrak funding authorization bill. Though Bush did not support this legislation, it passed in Congress by veto-proof votes. The bill authorizes funding for Amtrak for five years; what Amtrak actually gets will depend on how much is
Click here to read the list of candidates endorsed by TCU in the presidential and state-wide elections to take place November 4, 2008. Posted 9/26/08 This portion of this website is paid for by the Machinists Non-Partisan Polical League (http://www.goiam.org) and is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.
Election Week Countdown Click here President Scardelletti Leaves No Doubt About Who Gets His Vote: The Ballot Goes to Obama and Biden As TCU International President, Bob Scardelletti travels a lot, spending a great deal of time away from his home. That’s why he applied for an absentee ballot for the upcoming presidential election. A
September 12, 2008—The National Mediation Board has withdrawn its proposal to “clarify” policy about how union representation is handled in a merger when one party is unionized and the other is not. Unions including TCU and the IAM had protested the plan to change current practices, saying the move by the NMB would make it harder for
In the waning days of the Bush administration, party loyalists have been moving to leave their jurisdictions tightly bound by new anti-union policies. An egregious example of this can be found in changes being proposed at the National Labor Mediation Board, an agency that is critically important to TCU members. In early August, the NMB
House Democrats introduced legislation in early August aimed at blocking a Labor Department rule that could increase workers’ exposure to dangerous chemicals and toxins and make it more difficult for the next administration to enact new safety rules. It was revealed recently that the Bush administration was working on a last-minute change to the regulatory
Can you imagine a CEO agreeing to work without a contract that guarantees pay and benefits? It would never happen. But when companies prevent workers from forming unions, that’s exactly what they’re making employees do: work without any assurance of pay and benefits. If we collect enough signatures and elect friends of working families, next
July 21, 2008—TCU officially endorsed Barack Obama for President today. In his announcement, International President Bob Scardelletti pledged that TCU “will mobilize to elect Obama and a working family-friendly Congress in November.” “Our nation is in desperate need of a President who will reverse the disastrous course of these last eight years and lead us
July 3, 2008—The only question these days is not if the economy will lose jobs, but how many this time. We’ve lost 438,000 jobs so far this year including 62,000 in June alone. Falling house prices, rising mortgage rates, gas and food prices are squeezing workers as never before. The tax rebate checks in the
Longtime TCU legislative activist Tom Dwyer is now National President of the National Association of Retired and Veteran Railway Employees. Dwyer was elected at NARVRE’s 36th Biennial Convention held in Spokane, Washington May 18-20. NARVRE was founded in 1937 to protect the rights of railroad retirees. Since then the organization has fought to protect the
