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New AFL-CIO Report Reveals 275 Daily U.S. Worker Deaths in 2017

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka calls to support legislation that will improve health and safety conditions at work. View Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect report here: aflcio.

Amtrak and New Jersey Transit announced a joint $31 million investment to improve railroad infrastructure along the Northeast Corridor (NEC) in New Jersey and conduct renewal work throughout spring and summer. As part of the investment, Amtrak crews on May 20, 2019, will begin a block tie replacement program at Newark Penn Station.

When Vice President Mike Pence toured the damage in America’s heartland caused by historic flooding, he pledged to work with Republicans and Democrats to ensure farmers and ranchers in Iowa and Nebraska receive the federal funding they need to rebuild. He was right to do so.

BRS Local 234 members employed by Siemens Mobility, Inc. (formally Siemens Rail Automation), have ratified a new 5-year contract. The Agreement was ratified on April 24, 2019, in Louisville, Kentucky, after a Special Local Meeting was called by Local President, James Amburgey, II. The new agreement becomes effective June 1, 2019, and terminates on May 31, 2024.

Workers Memorial Day 2019

Each year on April 28, unions including the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen recognize Workers Memorial Day and remember American workers who were injured or killed in on-the-job accidents. We commemorate and honor these workers and renew the fight for safe workplaces.

This year we will come together to call for action on hazards that cause unnecessary injury, illness and death.

At Stop & Shop supermarkets across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island 31,000 workers have gone on strike. Management at Stop & Shop presented its “final offer” to workers, which included significant cuts to health care, massive increases (more than 100% in some cases) to workers’ health care premiums and replacing wage increases with so-called bonuses.

Today in Labor History

April 10, 1880 — Birth date of Frances Perkins, named Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first woman to hold a cabinet-level office.

April 10, 1917 — A total of 133 people, mostly women and girls, are killed when an explosion in the loading room tears apart the Eddystone Ammunition Works in Eddystone, Pa., near Chester.

A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court found that the portion of a damages award attributable to lost wages for a workplace injury is considered to be taxable compensation under the Railroad Retirement Tax Act (RRTA). The decision in BNSF Railway Co. v. Loos (No. 17-1042) was released by the Court on March 4, 2019. Mr.

Today in Labor History

March 27, 1904 — Mother Jones is ordered to leave Colorado, where state authorities accuse her of “stirring up” striking coal miners.

March 27, 2002 — U.S. Supreme Court rules that undocumented workers do not have the same rights as Americans when they are wrongly fired.

Federal Railroad Administrator Ronald Batory on Tuesday, March 19, 2019, declared an emergency event for railroad operations because of extreme flooding throughout the Midwest. The National Weather Service has documented historic flooding throughout the region, Batory said in an emergency event announcement.