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The following is a list of unions and brotherhoods playing a significant role in the railroad industry of the United States of America.Many of these entities changed names and merged over the years; this list is based upon the names current during the height of American railway unionism in the first decades of the 20th century.
Pages in category "Railway unions in the United States" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Main lines: Rebirth of the North American railroads, 1970–2002 (Northern Illinois UP, 2003). Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad (1975) online; Stover, John. Iron Road to the West: American Railroads in the 1850s (1978) online; Stover, John. The Routledge historical atlas of the American railroads (1999) online; Ward, James ...
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Association of American Railroads WWII poster. The Association of American Railroads (AAR) is an industry trade group representing primarily the major freight railroads of North America (Canada, Mexico and the United States). [2] Amtrak and some regional commuter railroads are also members.
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Many of the Railroad Brotherhoods merged into other larger unions such as the Teamsters, the Transportation Communications International Union and the United Transportation Union. The Railway Labor Executives' Association disbanded in January 1997, with its functions taken on by the Rail Division of the AFL–CIO Transportation Trades Department .
The American Railway Union (ARU) was briefly among the largest labor unions of its time and one of the first industrial unions in the United States. Launched at a meeting held in Chicago in February 1893, the ARU won an early victory in a strike on the Great Northern Railroad in the summer of 1894. [ 1 ]