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Operation Lifesaver, Inc.
Awards $219,000 for Crossing Safety
Public Awareness Campaigns |
Operation Lifesaver, Inc. (OLI), in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), announced $219,000 in grants to Operation Lifesaver programs in 15 states. The grants will fund a variety of highway-rail grade crossing safety public education projects in conjunction with the nonprofit safety group’s upcoming U.S. Rail Safety Week, September 24-30, 2017.
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| Safety on Railroad Bridges |
The FAMES Committee has reviewed the available data from 14 railroad bridge fall accidents, in which 12 fatalities and 2 serious injuries occurred. Given that bridge workers constitute a small percentage of the railroad worker population, this is a significant number.
Unsecured walkways/gratings were the primary cause in one-half of the fatal accidents and serious injuries.
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25th Anniversary NALC
"Stamp Out Hunger" Food Drive |
This Saturday, letter carriers will pick up and deliver your mail, just like they do every week. But what makes this particular Saturday so special is that your local carrier will also collect nonperishable goods for food banks donated by people like you across the country.
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| TTD Urges Support for FY17 Omnibus Appropriations Bill |
Washington, DC — Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), issues this statement on the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2017:
“We applaud Congress for coming together to complete an omnibus appropriations bill that funds critical transportation investments, rejects anti-worker riders, and avoids a needless government shutdown.
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| Today in Labor History |
1867 — Chicago's first Trades Assembly, formed three years earlier, sponsors a general strike by thousands of workers to enforce the state's new 8-hour-day law. The one-week strike was unsuccessful.
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| Join the People's Climate March |
Stand up for Our Communities and Climate
Join American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO (APWU) members, as well as allies from labor, civil rights, environmental and political reform groups.
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Can We Make Chicago’s Trains
Run on Time? |
The most congested choke point for train traffic in North America is here in Chicago. It's where trains carrying Iowa corn meet black tankers full of North Dakota oil, where railcars with Wyoming coal rattle past others with Michigan SUVs.
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Fast Trains Will Not
Just Show Up at the Station |
As President Trump has called for new investments in our infrastructure, he has routinely criticized our nation’s passenger rail system, lamenting America’s lack of ‘fast trains’. There is no denying that America should have more frequent and faster train service. But those fast trains will not just show up at the station.
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| DTO Votes Yes |
BRS Welcomes Denver Transit Operators.
On March 29, Maintenance of Way and Dispatching Department employees of Denver Transit Operators (DTO) voted, by an overwhelming majority, to join the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen.
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