IBEW Joins Growing Labor Opposition to UP-NS Merger  - Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

Don’t let beltway politics derail American rail workers

In a recent Daily Caller op-ed, former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer calls the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger a “working-class test” for Republicans. But her argument leaves […]

Don’t let beltway politics derail American rail workers - The Daily Bo Snerdley

In a recent Daily Caller op-ed, former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer calls the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger a “working-class test” for Republicans. But her argument leaves out the labor organizations that support the merger, the written job protections SMART-TD members secured, and her own record of backing away from labor legislation. It also leaves out the political relationship at the center of this debate. Teamsters P…

Beltway Politics Don’t Equal Job Protections for Rail Workers

Teamsters President Sean O’Brien can’t seem to stop inserting himself into the pending Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger. Read on to learn why political alliances aren’t the same as job protections.

IBEW joins growing labor opposition to UP-NS merger  - Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

More than 70 percent of union railroad workers now oppose the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger, after the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) last week became the seventh rail union to oppose the proposed acquisition. The IBEW’s announcement came after the Stop the Rail Merger Coalition fact-checked UP and NS’s claim of “majority” union support, finding that the six unions then publicly opposing the merger (BLET, BMWED, B…