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Workers can accrue 4 points by being on-call for 14 straight days, but any time off, even for illness or a family emergency, resets the clock. [9] Unions representing about 17,000 workers threatened to strike over the points system, but BNSF Railway sued and won a restraining order to prevent the unions from striking. [10]
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) will now press ahead with two 48-hour strikes at Network Rail – and 14 train companies – from Tuesday and Friday.
All strike action planned for December 13,14, 16 and 17 will go ahead.Furthermore, further strike action will take place between 18.00 hours on December 24 through to 05.59 hours December 27 2022 ...
He doubts rail workers today would be able to get time off for key family events on short notice the way he did when he found out his son was getting his doctorate right before Christmas in 2009.
2022 South Korean truckers strike; [27] [28] 2022 Tunisian judges strike; [29] 2022–2023 United Kingdom railway strikes: strike by National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers members against low wages and proposed cuts of safety-critical jobs, (ongoing as of February 2023); 2022 Zimbabwe nurses strikes; [30]
Commuter rail lines that could be impacted by a strike include: Metra, Chicago’s commuter rail network; Washington D.C. area MARC and VRE; Caltrain in the San Francisco Bay Area and Metrolink in ...
Late-night negotiations averted a strike by the nation's railroad workers, which would have had huge effects on the U.S. and California economies. A last-minute deal stopped a massive railroad strike.
The major freight railroads appear unwilling to give track maintenance workers much more than they received in the initial contract they rejected last week, increasing the chances of a strike.