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Read moreTCU’s IVP Parker Takes Case for Amtrak Back Pay Funding to Congress April 3, 2008—IVP Joel Parker testifed this morning before the Senate Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies, stressing how important it is for Congress to fund the second retroactive pay installment for Amtrak workers. More » Budget Resolution from
Read moreMarch 10, 2008—It’s time to celebrate at Amtrak: TCU carmen and maintenance of way and maintenance of equipment supervisors have resoundingly ratified the terms of agreements that took eight long years of struggle to achieve. Of those voting, the contracts were ratified by 87% of carmen, 95% of maintenance of way supervisors and 88% of
Read moreDecember 2007—TCU has been receiving questions as to our position about the very public criticisms levied by TCI, a British hedge fund, against CSX management. TCI owns approximately 4% of CSX stock. Earlier this year the fund called for a sweeping change in direction at CSX. They want to up stock prices by freezing capital
Read moreTCU International Vice President Joel Parker has been unanimously re-elected as Labor Trustee to the National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust for another three-year term starting January 1, 2008. The vote was taken by unions of the Cooperating Railway Labor Organizations group attending an October 30 meeting. The NRRIT manages Railroad Retirement assets and invests them in a diversified portfolio
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