Statement by Railroad Workers United

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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:

With the current presidential election winding up, looking a lot like a Democratic sweep, it might be useful to look back at an earlier time, when the great Eugene Debs, rail labor leader and Socialist Party presidential candidate went on the stump across the US. Debs got nearly three percent of the vote in this election. In 1912 he got 6 percent.�

Judging by his remarks in this speech, workers have a long way to go yet to solve problems that he posed 100 years ago.

Jon Flanders

The rolling stock of the German railroads, due to be peddled off to the highest stock market bidders on October 27th, has been saved, at least temporarily, and is still nationally owned. That seems to be the one possible bit of good news in the present economic crisis. All the rest is bad.

By Charley Richardson

Solidarity forms the bedrock of the labor movement, but there is remarkably little discussion of it—what it really is, where it comes from, and how to build it.

Metrolink runs on shoestring budget in complex environment

Engineer Robert M. Sanchez's regular five-day workweek was spread over nearly 53 hours, according to authorities.

This year happens to be the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, a revolution in governmental philosophy that began with the Emergency Banking Act of 1933. That first piece of New Deal legislation was a hurried response to the worst banking crisis in U.S. history - until now.

From a New York Times op-ed piece, we learn just how much extra John McCain want us to pay for our health insurance.

If SEIU and the AFL-CIO get their way, the day that all Americans have affordable insurance will be pushed into the unforeseeable future.

from Portside Labor.

There is likely to be no meaningful revival of the labor movement until rank-and-file members have a fundamental role in running their unions.