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NLRB Rolls Back Trump-Era Election Rule Remnants.

NLRB Rolls Back Trump-Era Election Rule Remnants. Workers will have to wait less time to vote on whether to unionize after the National Labor Relations Board issued a final rule Thursday unwinding what remains of a 2019 regulation lengthening the election...

STB appoints rail union leader Ferguson to RSTAC

STB appoints rail union leader Ferguson to RSTAC The Surface Transportation Board has appointed rail labor leader Jeremy Ferguson to the board’s Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory Council (RSTAC) as an at-large member. Ferguson is president Transportation...

Railroad Keeps Win In Suit Over Worker’s Fatal Heart Attack

A Texas appellate panel on Wednesday affirmed the dismissal of a suit seeking to hold Kansas City Southern Railway Co. liable for a railroad conductor’s heart attack death, saying the company’s adoption of certain workplace safety policies didn’t...