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Railroads offer paid sick days, schedule changes to retain employees

Railroads offer paid sick days, schedule changes to retain employees When railroad employees get sick, they’re usually faced with a tough choice: use one of their limited personal days, head into work anyway or, if neither of those is an option, risk their job...

Durbin Shows Support For Rail Employee Benefits Improvements

Our nation relies on the railroad to keep our economy running, and we should be providing rail workers with the benefits to reflect that. In my conversation with @AAR_FreightRail CEO Ian Jeffries, I emphasized that the rail industry must improve employee benefits....

STB rejects UP’s request for confidentiality in embargo case

STB rejects UP’s request for confidentiality in embargo case The Surface Transportation Board has rejected Union Pacific Railroad’s request to keep certain commercial information confidential in a case involving the Class I’s use of traffic-control...