SMART-TD

A bill signed into law by outgoing New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy regulates hazardous-material trains in the state. 

The biggest rail union backs a transcontinental merger proposal after winning job protections from UP, NS.

The Trump administration is getting conflicting advice on how to fit railroad automation into the country’s long-term transportation strategy.

A CPKC union is polling members about a possible strike, claiming the railroad took advantage of a service crisis to make workplace job changes on the troubled Kansas City Southern network. 

Bipartisan legislation would limit the number of hours for employees supervising traffic flow in railroad yards.

Eastern U.S. railroad operator CSX has reached a deal with several of its unions well before a deadline.

Add Kansas to the list of states that require more than one person in the locomotive cab of a freight train.

BNSF and SMART-TD have reached a tentative agreement addressing how BNSF handles work schedules for train conductors and other related union members.

SMART-TD is telling freight train conductors and conductor trainees to take charge of their safety since the programs offered by railroads are lacking. This is following the recent deaths of two conductor trainees.

What will Union Pacific look like once incoming CEO Jim Vena assumes the role later this month? That’s the question industry stakeholders have been wondering.

BNSF has reached a sick leave and work-rest agreement with BLET; CSX and SMART-TD have partnered to extend CSX’s conductor trainee program.

Union Pacific and the union representing train conductors have reached a sick leave agreement.

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo has vetoed a bill that would have restricted freight train lengths to 7,500 feet. State union representatives said they will continue to press legislators on the issue.

Norfolk Southern and yardmasters affiliated with SMART-TD have struck a tentative deal on sick leave.

BNSF is offering additional sick leave days to some members allifated with SMART-TD.

Union members working for CSX and CN said they have ratified labor agreements with their employers.

Norfolk Southern and SMART-TD, the union group representing train conductors that work at NS, have reached a tentative agreement that addresses scheduling issues and sick leave.

Unions representing locomotive engineers and train conductors are still working through some sticking points with railroads regarding work schedules, sources told FreightWaves.

The Port of Virginia has plans to expand capacity at its inland port and at the Richmond Marine Terminal, while CSX has reached a sick leave agreement with another union group.

Union Pacific will hold off on plans to redeploy the train conductor from the locomotive cab to grounds-based work, according to a tentative agreement between UP and SMART-TD.