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Railroad industry news about: National Mediation Board, Deirdre Hamilton, rail labor, Linda Puchala, Gerald Fauth III, International Brotherhood of Teamsters. From the editors of Progressive Railroading Magazine
The senators say that multiple Equal Employment Opportunity complaints have been filed by FMSC staffers, stemming from organizational restructuring at the agency.
Nearly 100% of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen members have voted in support of a nationwide strike, which BLET National President Dennis R. Pierce is calling “a showing of solidarity and unity.”
A work stoppage would cripple supply chains.
Contract negotiations covering 115,000 rail workers in the U.S. are expected to heat up in 2022. Workers are seething over the impact of extreme cost-cutting measures. Rail unions are escalating through the slow steps of negotiations under the Railway Labor Act—toward a resolution, a strike, or a lockout. Rail remains one of the most heavily unionized industries in the