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ROCU Website Announcement
UTU, the Carriers' ENEMY, EQUAL ADVERSARY, or FRIEND
What ROCU Stands For
Living in the Surveillance Society
National Rail Safety Action Plan
ROCU's Ed Michael On IBT, TDU and Rail Solidarity
The Nature of the Problem
Preemption Trumps Safety in the Nation's Capitol
Unified Rail Labor Must Deal With The Railway Labor Act.
Logistics Revolution Exposes Choke Points to Labor's Direct Action
Brother Webb's Comments on ROCU and Bottom-Up Rail Unity

Rail Operating Crafts United (ROCU)
What Every Rail Knows About Fatigue
Potential Causes of a Recent RCL Fatality
CEO Pay Widens Income Gap
Shareholders Sue UP for Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Women In The Workplace
CP Charged With Violating Hazardous Materials Regulations
The Scoundrels at CMS
Rail Safety Crisis is one of Perception, says RAILWAY AGE
BNSF RCL Amputation and RCD Dismissal
Labor's Books
Court Gives Green Light to Class Action UP Contraceptive Case

KCS Stockholders Vote for Globalization
Rail Labor Tax Dollars, Loss of Union Rail Jobs
One Big Union - IWW Centenary
Comment on States' Rights and Federal Preemption
Rail Safety, Failure of Federal Regulation, and Preemption
Injury, Harassment, States Rights, FRA and Preemption
Nation's Hazardous Rail Shipments Still Unsecured
UTU, Carriers Agree Not to Engage in Self Help
Hidden Costs of Shopping at Wal-Mart
Roger Griffeth Still a Candidate for UTU IP
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Calling All Union Women!
Railroads Want PTC, a System We Don't Need and They Can't Afford
Railroad Labor and It's History
Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean . . .
AMTRAK Phaseout - Part of BushCo Plan
UTU IP Thompson Says National Negotiations Have Completely Broken Down
NCCC, RLBC and IBB Rules - The Way It Is
Work and Family Values
IPA Explains How RLA Regulates Contract Negotiation
NCCC Convinces UTU it Intends to Eliminate Conductors and FELA
DOT Agency Backs CSX on D.C. Hazmat Ban
AUD, UTU, and the LMRDA
UTU GC Delbert Strunk Assigned Impossible Mission
False Clear Causes Wreck on BNSF
Principles of Union Organization
State and Local Authorities Seek to Regulate Rail Industry
Newhires, FELA, and a Jury of our Peers
UPRR, Jim Young, Train Velocity and Reality
BMWE Lodge 3014 Points Out Link Between Social Security and Railroad Retirement
NCCC Deems Bargaining Ground Rules Silly
NCCC Walks Out On RLBC Over Ground Rules
FRA PTC Final Rule
Railway Carmen and Industrial Unionism
BLET/LIRR Dispute Likely Headed for Arbitration
What's Maiming and Killing our Nation's Railroaders?
American Rights at Work and Obstacles to Organizing Under the RLA
Republican's Use Audits to Punish Unions
An aggressive audit of labor unions is only one front in Republicans' multi-pronged attack
IBT Rail Conference and the Threat of New Technology and One-man Trains
Gamst Reports from NTSB PTC Symposium
FELA and your next Contract at Risk?
BNSF Dispatchers Walk
Calling All Grievance Gals and Guys
TROUBLEMAKER'S HANDBOOK II
Gamst on SOFA and the difficulties of talking to your Hogger
Productivity at Any Cost
Kids Love Trains' Horns

How not to layoff sick
BLE&T DIV 518 Resolution
Webb's Response to UTU IP
Brother Webb asks a good question

Carriers' Union Busting Sec. 6 notices
New Technology

Bush proposing new tax on railroad workers

RESQ on the UPRR's continuing problems - and OURS
Former UTU IP in Transit on way to new home
Send Section 6 Suggestions to Thompson

Breaking UTU News
The UTU Pyramid of Power Turned Upside Down
Help MAC Petition to Unseal Court Records
Webb on UTU overtime giveback
UTU seeking sponsors of winner-take-all Bill
Article 74 Charges against General Chairman J. Kevin Klein UTU GO-887
UPRR Negligent in Rail Crossing Accident Reporting?
UTU Criminals attempt to blame FELA
Little, Boyd get 2 years without parole
Got Rail Trouble - Blame Vishwakarma

Another San Antonio Train Wreck
Argentine Privatization of Rails Fails
Snakebites
Choke Points help Truckers protest rising fuel costs

UP Management by the Data
Retired Manager Blows Whistle on UPRR Mis-Management
UTU MAC Caucus Strikes First Blow for Union Reform
FELA not for sale,
FRA Interim Report on RCOs
FRA Certifies RCL Operations as Safe
5 Day RCL Wonder Involved in Portland Runaway
National Day of Security and Frontline RR Employees
SNOW ON THE RAILS
Union Pacific using Management to run Locomotives with BLET blessing
UPRR Train Accident in San Antonio upsets residents
UTU, BLET, IBT and the AFL-CIO
Grand Bargaining Coalition for Rail Labor in the Works
Indy Truckers' Protest Fueled by high price of Diesel
CN sells CANAC Inc. subsidiary to Savage Companies
Teamsters' RISE Staff Resigns

Unified Bargaining Front for Rail Labor
The Real Labor Day - May 1st
2003 LM2 for UTU and BLE
April SnakeBites
UP Stockholders Revolt
SOFA Statistics Released for Januuary
UPRR Explains Manpower Crisis to Customers
UTU Purges DLC Roles
Another UTU International President Charged
Election Complaint To Department of Labor regarding UTU 2003 Election for International President
US Attorney Press Release on Boyd/Rookard Guilty Plea
UP Stockholder Concerned about RCL Casualty Costs
Rails oppose Minnesota heavy-truck bill
UPRR Turning Away Business
Union Pacific, UPS, Meltdown.
UTU 2003 Election Protest Continues
VP Dave Hakey charged with violation of Article 41 of UTU Constitution
BLET trainman blasts CPRS/BLET tentative agreement

Freight-Car Congestion Is Worrying Union Pacific
Asbestos bill bad news for rail workers
Lawyers, leaders capitalize on railroad workers' injuries
"Replacement Workers" must be banned!
UTU MAC Reform Caucus grows like a weed
Legislation Proposed to Upgrade RCO Requirements
Railroad CEO Compensation
CAW members vote "yes" to tentative agreements
Remote control of trains debated
On BLE's lawsuit against UTU Local 650
Gamst on the the Complexities of Car Handling
Railworkers Strike Chokes Freight Traffic in Canada
DICK DAVIDSON DECLARES AN $18+ MILLION DOLLAR BONUS FOR 2003 BUT THE REST OF THE INDUSTRY SUFFERS
Contract Vote Could End CN Rail Strike by Friday
Highlights of CN Owner-Operator Settlement
CAW AND CN REACH SETTLEMENT
CN asks strikers to go back to work
Former UTU President Byron A. Boyd, Jr. pleads guilty
Union bribery probe could turn attention to Houston lawyers
Locomotive Engineers Merge into the Teamsters
TTD Resolution Calls for an End to Locomotive Remote
Appeal of UTU EB Boyd Decision
Cdn Natl Rail Says Formal Talks With CAW Union Break Off
Appeal to President Thompson regarding Trial Board's Discipline Decision of suspended President Boyd
Request for comments on BLE/IBT merger
Website for Info on the CN strike
UPRR Harrassment and Excessive "Limbo Time"?
BLET and CPRS reach tentative agreement
Miles Mulloy on the plight of the post-85 railroader
UTU Reform Caucus
Saint Paul Yard CPRS BLET Conductor sets record Straight
Letter UTUIA Board of Directors Remove Boyd from office
The Next Step
One Big Union in Transportation?
FIRST SMALL STEP IN UTU REFORM
UTU Exec Board Letters to Boyd and Johnson
Boyd Suspended Without Pay
Worldwide day backs railways
Rail worker’s asthma case called first of its kind

Photos of the Carrizozo Train Wreck
Railroads Run Out of Train Crews ... Again
Supreme Court Upholds Award
Who will stop the bleeding?
Talks to resume in CN strike
CAW and Canadian National Railway met for the first time since January 23
RRESQ on UPRR New Mexico Wreck
CAW strike
CN Rail onSTRIKE
Carrizizi Wreck
UPRR Discipline Alert
Deaths in New Mexico Train Wreck
Boyd/Johnson Trial News
RRESQ Informational Bulletin - Feb '04

Little Pleads Guilty
UTU Executive Board sets date for trials
Boyd Trial On for March 22
Little Pleads Guilty
RRESQ
From the Railway Labor Act:
Roger Griffeth on Babler's letter
Beltpack weight claims
Remembering Jody Herstine
Griffeth's Campaign Speech

CSX RCL Accident
RRESQ Writes FRA on San Antonio RCL Fatality
Testimony implicates ex-official
FRA Statistics show Rise in Overall Percentage of Yard Accidents since RCO
Judge to Allow Amtrak Employees to Strike
FRA Defends RCOs
Remote Control Locomotive kills railroad worker
Where do UTU International Officers stand?
BLE Members Approve IBT Merger
Maglev sets a speed record of 581 kph
Our Railroads: A Classic Example of How Greed is Destroying our Economy and the Incomes of Working Americans
Amtrak Workers Walk Off Job
43rd U.S. community passes remote control safety resolution

Control Chief's MU&GO
Craft Union Conflict Railroads Workers
Rail Workers Battle Unsafe Remote Control Technology
Snakebites
Blame it on the Pin Puller
Swindled Railroad worker suit
The Railroad Barons Are Back
RRESQ Women Make a Difference
UTU guilty of raiding BLE on CP Railway
CHALLENGING CORPORATE "RIGHTS"
NEW CHARGES FILED AGAINST CURRENT AND FORMER PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION
N.J. CRIMINALIZES DRIVING WHILE TIRED
UP Hits Brakes on Remote Control
LC Responds to Brother Webb
More indictments against UTU officials
Brokenrail On Rail Unionism
UP Availability Policy
BLE national TA available
UTU 2002 National Agreement IMPOSED on GO-386
Webb on Lake Erie Plan,
Managers Improperly Working as Trainmen/Switchmen
Pens and Needles
CN eyes eventual 35 percent cut in crews
Jones attempts to motivate the Post85ers.
UPRR Re-evaluates RCL Experiment?
Local Concerns about RCOs
DM&E A-Card Campaign
Maladies of non-negotiation
BLE critical of Amtrak Board nominee
BMWE members support Teamster merger
UTU Health-care agreement ratified
BLE/TEX-MEX RCL Agreement
Rising Tide?
Box Pains
FRA/RCL Q&A
Switching by Wire