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Contact: Kevin Gifford (301) 840-8741 giffordk@tcunion.org March 4, 2020 Rockville, MD TCU/IAM National President Robert A. Scardelletti announces his retirement on July 31, 2020 after serving 29 years as TCU’s President with over 53 years of membership in the TCU/IAM. Scardelletti began his rail career as a Yard Clerk with the New York Central Railroad
Read moreContact: Kevin Gifford (301) 840-8741 giffordk@tcunion.org March 4, 2020 Rockville, MD Arthur Maratea has been elected TCU/IAM National President effective August 1, 2020 by its Executive Council to fill the interim vacancy created by the retirement of its current President. President-elect Maratea began his railroad career as a Carman on the Long Island Railroad in
Read moreYour Response Needed by March 31, 2020 Beginning January 1, 2020, The Railroad Employees National Health and Welfare Plan and The National Railway Carriers and United Transportation Union (NRC/UTU) Health and Welfare Plan (each a “Plan”) began conducting a spouse eligibility audit, administered by Railroad Enrollment Services. With just over a month left for this
Read moreCongressmen Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) joined TCU-IAM members in front of Amtrak’s William H. Gray III 30th Street Station to protest the nation’s passenger rail corporation’s unjust removal of good, union-protected jobs. The lawmakers were also be joined by Numa St. Louis, District Director for Congressman Dwight Evans, and Jim Mathews, President
Read moreThe BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) has petitioned the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for a waiver of compliance from Federal railroad safety regulations with respect to transfer movements between BNSF’s Old South Yard and New South Yard in Houston, Texas. More specifically, BNSF proposes to conduct a Class III brake test in lieu of a transfer
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