The National Transportation Safety Board’s ruling last week on the need for cameras recording locomotive engineers as they work is an attack upon all working people.

This is the lead off article of the Union Democracy supplement for the RWU Winter 2010 newsletter, The Highball.

The failure of rail labor to stick together and to build a common strategy and a common platform has historically been one of the greatest impediments to railroad workers achieving their goals.  Read more about the co-ordinated bargaining campaign in the Fall 2009 Highball. 

Heather Boehlke, widow of Jared Boehlke, locomotive remote control operator, who was killed on Mother's Day, 2009, appeals for support. Send your letter to Congressman James Oberstar, head of the House Transportation Committee.

Almost 12,000 signatures of railroad workers and spouses from all over the United States who say that now is the time to reform railroad retirement. 

Here's where RWU members are located as of 01/5/2010. Have you signed up for a better future for rail workers yet? Sign up here.

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Railroaders and Unions need a real safety program, not "blame-the workers" safety programs!

For those of us employed by the railroad we have seen many programs implemented by management come and go. The new flavor of the month for Union Pacific TE&Y employees is the system wide implementation of a behavioral based blame-the worker safety program knows as Total Safety Culture, TSC for short. Blame the workers safety programs include:

Congratulations to the BLET & UTU for a cooperative action!

RWU's ongoing effort to fight total safety culture on the UP continues with our new pins

Hazards Pin