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Amtrak carried more than 31.2 million passengers in Fiscal Year 2012 ending September 30, marking the highest annual ridership total since Amtrak started operations in 1971 and the ninth ridership record during the last ten years. A comparison of FY 2012 to FY 2011 shows ridership grew 3.5 percent to a new record of 31,240,565
Read moreTCU President Bob Scardelletti Addresses IAM Convention More than 100 TCU delegates arrived at Toronto’s massive Convention Center on Sunday, September 9 eager to participate in their first ever IAM Grand Lodge Convention. By Convention’s close on the following Friday, after a non-stop agenda of action on the issues facing American workers, the TCU delegation
Read moreDane County Wisconsin Judge Juan Colas has struck down nearly all of the state law championed by Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers. In his ruling, Colas said Walker’s law violated union members’ freedom of speech and association and equal protection under the law because Walker’s bill subjected
Read moreIn a recent statement from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Administrator Joe Szabo, he pointed to major growth in Amtrak ridership across the country. Szabo said, “Amtrak’s overall performance is best characterized as a Cinderella story. Ridership is booming and robust in nearly every region of the country over the last decade, with annual ridership
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has once again found that Norfolk Southern Railway Co. violated the whistleblower protection provisions of the Federal Railroad Safety Act and consequently has ordered the company to pay two whistleblowers $932,070.46 in damages, including $387,813.75 in punitive damages and attorney’s fees. Additionally, the company
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