CALIFORNIA – Today, the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CAHSRA), which oversees the largest high-speed rail project under construction in North America, announced a ground-breaking agreement with 13 rail unions to utilize rail workers covered by federal railroad labor laws in critical jobs once trains begin to operate. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) ensures that highly skilled rail workers […]
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— Nov 17
The railroad industry has a handful of trade magazines that do a very thorough job of covering what is going on in the world of government regulations as well as technology and industry trends. One thing that these magazines do with regularity is to put out lists they bill as “Railroader of the Year” or […]
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— Nov 16
The following letter was submitted by the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, of which the SMART Transportation Division and Mechanical Division are members, on behalf of SMART and a number of other labor unions to President Joe Biden earlier this week. November 12, 2023 Dear President Biden: On behalf of the undersigned national rail […]
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— Nov 16
Helen Jury Armstrong was a union activist, feminist and anti-war leader who rose to fame during the 1919 Winnipeg general strike. Born in 1875 to a father who worked as a tailor and was a member of the Knights of Labour, Helen “Ma” Armstrong spent her life advocating for working-class women, unions, minimum wage and […]
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— Nov 14
Today, we observe Veterans Day in the United States and Remembrance Day in Canada: a day to honor those Americans and Canadians who have devoted themselves to protecting our freedom and democracy, principles that we treasure as union members. “At SMART, we are proud to do our part: helping transition our heroes back into civilian […]
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— Nov 10
