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Railroad Retirement benefits to increase in 2014
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, November 13, 2013) CHICAGO — Most railroad retirement annuities, like social security benefits, are scheduled to increase in January 2014 on the basis of the rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the third...
Railroad retiree earnings limits to rise in 2014
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, November 13, 2013) CHICAGO — Railroad retirement annuitants subject to earnings restrictions can earn more in 2014 without having their benefits reduced as a result of increases in earnings limits indexed to average...
This week, Walmart protests go global
(Source: Teamster Nation, November 19, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — ‘Tis the season for strikes at Walmart and workers worldwide are catching the spirit. On the heels of increasing strike activity this month, workers are gearing up for Black Friday protests with a global...
Teamsters, church distribute free Thanksgiving dinners
(Source: Troy Messenger, November 19, 2013) TROY, Ala. — This Thanksgiving, the Teamsters National Black Caucus and the youth department of Dunn’s Chapel AME Church are teaming up for their sixth annual distribution of Thanksgiving meals for the elderly, handicapped...
Meet the Ohio lawmaker trying to protect workers’ Thanksgivings
(Source: Huffington Post, November 19, 2013) Like many Americans, Mike Foley and his wife were outraged when they discovered that several major retailers will be open on Thanksgiving Day. But unlike most, Foley might actually be able to do something about it (besides...
Members of Congress come out against fast-tracking Trans-Pacific Partnership
(Source: The Diplomat, November 18, 2013) TOKYO — The increasingly beleaguered Trans-Pacific Partnership might have been delivered a mortal blow last week when a large bipartisan group of Congress members came out against giving President Obama Fast Track Trade...
Union Pacific harvests Christmas tree for Omaha
(Source: Associated Press, November 19, 2013) OMAHA, Neb. — Omaha's Christmas tree has been cut down from a local yard and delivered to the Durham Museum downtown. Union Pacific employees removed the 45-foot-tall Colorado Blue Spruce tree from Kevin and Linda...
Amtrak, Baltimore may have dodged a bullet following passenger train derailment in Baltimore
(Source: Baltimore Brew, November 19, 2013) BALTIMORE, Md. — Something happened underneath West Baltimore yesterday that transportation experts have worried about for decades. A passenger train derailed in the B&P Tunnel used by more than 20,000 Amtrak and MARC...
Railroad Retirement offers lessons for Social Security
(Source: Benefits Pro, November 19, 2013) Proposals to bolster the Social Security trust fund by allowing it to invest in private equities have stirred controversy for more than a decade, but the experience of a retirement plan for railroad workers offers a glimpse at...
Vice President Biden says Baltimore’s port needs new rail facility
(Source: Baltimore Sun, November 19, 2013) BALTIMORE, Md. — After touring the expansion of the Panama Canal, Vice President Joe Biden and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Tuesday they plan to increase their advocacy for a proposed CSX transfer station in Baltimore....
Amtrak investigating wrong-turn train
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, November 19, 2013) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — An Amtrak train with 130 passengers took a wrong turn on its way to New York last week and ended up at SEPTA's Bala Cynwyd station. Full story: Philadelphia Inquirer
Keystone pipeline foes seek to thwart oil sands exports by rail
(Source: Bloomberg, November 20, 2013) NEW YORK — Environmentalists opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline are expanding their fight against imports of Canadian heavy crude oil by trying to block rail projects that offer another way for it to enter the U.S. Full story:...
Unsecured rail cars led to 2012 UP fatality in Mason City
(Source: Globe Gazette, November 19, 2013) MASON CITY, Iowa — The National Transportation Safety Board says unsecured railroad cars are the probable cause of the death of a Union Pacific railroad worker in Mason City in 2012. Georgiy Solovlyov, 36, of Stanhope, a...
Pennsylvania House OKs transportation bill it rejected a day earlier
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, November 20, 2013) HARRISBURG, Pa. — In a rare and abrupt turnaround, the state House on Tuesday approved a $2.3 billion transportation-funding proposal that had failed only 24 hours earlier. Among other provisions, the proposal would...
CN employee dies after being hit by train in eastern Saskatchewan
(Source: Reuters, November 19, 2013) TISDALE, Sask. — A Canadian National Railway employee was killed in a train accident near the small northeastern town of Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada's largest railroad confirmed on Tuesday. The Transportation Safety Board of...
Artists plan space journey for rail passengers in Philly
(Source: Comcast Sports Net Philadelphia, November 19, 2013) PHILADELPHIA — Anyone who frequents the trains on the Northeast Corridor is likely familiar with the largely dilapidated industrial area surrounding the tunnels at Amtrak’s 30th Street Station. It’s not the...
Canadian rail operators should pool insurance policies, lobby group says
(Source: Montreal Gazette, November 13, 2013) MONTREAL — One Canadian lobby group says rail operators should learn from the U.S. nuclear energy industry. In a report published this week by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Mary-Jane Bennett suggests rail...
Union Pacific increasing train speed on line through Wichita, Kan.
(Source: Union Pacific press release, November 13, 2013) OMAHA, Neb. — Recent track upgrades meeting or exceeding all applicable Federal Railroad Administration standards will allow Union Pacific Railroad to increase the speed of its trains from 30 mph to 49 mph on...
Metro-North track work restores 75 mph speed
(Source: The Journal News, November 15, 2013) NEW YORK — Recent track work completed by Metro-North will allow trains to reach speeds of 75 mph through a stretch in the Bronx for the first time in five years. Trains will reach that top speed, 15 mph faster than...
Amtrak expects packed trains Thanksgiving week
(Source: WWLTV, November 18, 2013) NEW ORLEANS — It's been a record-setting fiscal year for Amtrak, with over 31 million passengers. The national passenger railroad has set record ridership numbers in 10 out of the last 11 years, and trains are expected to be packed...
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