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By the end of this year, Amtrak will begin installing inward-facing video cameras in some of its locomotives in service on the Northeast Corridor, and all subsequently delivered locomotives will have the equipment installed before they go into service, providing an additional measure of safety and an additional tool to monitor locomotive and engineer performance,
Read moreIn a letter from TCU President Bob Scardelletti to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx supports the TIGER grant application requested by METRA. “On behalf of the Transportation Communications Union/lAM (TCU), I write in support of Metra’s MD-W Fox River Bridge grant application through the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER VII) discretionary grant
Read moreThe Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) and its 32 member unions, of which TCU is a member, hosted a Roundtable with Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx to urge action on a broad policy agenda unveiled by TTD unions in February: “Washington, DC is too often defined by dysfunction and inaction,” said TTD President Edward Wytkind, following
Read moreThe White House released a statement on Workers Memorial Day: “Throughout our history, the American worker has labored not only to erect buildings and cities, but also to raise the standards of our Nation’s workplaces. Through protests and picket lines, by organizing and raising their voices together, workers have won small and large victories that
Read moreDora Cervantes James Conigliaro IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger announced at the MNPL Planning Committee meeting in Houston, TX that General Vice President Dora Cervantes will be the new IAM General Secretary-Treasurer following the retirement of General Secretary-Treasurer (GST) Robert Roach, Jr. District 15 President and Directing Business Representative James Conigliaro will fill the post
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