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The National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust (the “Trust”) issues a Quarterly Update to provide current information on the Trust’s operations and activities relating to its investment operations. This update reports on the Trust’s activities for the quarter ending March 31, 2019. Copies of the Trust’s Annual Management Report and each Quarterly Update are available on
Read moreThe Unions that make up the Amtrak Service Workers Council (ASWC) will be holding a rally/press event in Chicago on April 24th to oppose Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson’s cutting and outsourcing of on-board service workers. We will not stand for Richard Anderson to take any more of our jobs away! We encourage any-and-all to attend
Read moreEmployers and employees covered by the Railroad Retirement Act pay higher retirement taxes than those covered by the Social Security Act, so that railroad retirement benefits remain higher than social security benefits, especially for career employees who have 30 or more years of service. The Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) has released a questions and answers
Read moreOn April 13, 2019, a locomotive at the Wauhatchie Rail Yard in Chattanooga, TN fatally struck Carman Allen C. Lowe, member of TCU Local 6673. This accident is still under investigation by the NTSB. Allen C. Lowe was 46 years old and resided in Erwin, TN. He is a member of the TCU Carmen
Read moreMore than 800 members of the IAM’s largest territory, the Transportation Department, including over 200 TCU delegates, joined together in Las Vegas this week for the 2019 IAM Transportation Conference. The IAM, which represents more than 160,000 members in the airline and rail industries, is North America’s largest union in the sector. Speakers at the
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