We congratulate leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and thousands of supporters for the news that the federal government will deny authorization for the Dakota Access Pipeline to go through tribal lands posing a threat to water sources and sacred sites.
Read More… of the Pennsylvania Federation’s statement on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Americans are not offered major-party candidates who have opposing political ideologies or ideas. We are presented only with manufactured political personalities. We vote for the candidate who makes us “feel” good about him or her. Campaigns are entertainment and commercial vehicles to raise billions in advertising revenue for corporations. The candidate who can provide the best show gets the most coverage...
A Continuing State of Safety Emergency on the Amtrak Property
A letter to Amtrak's new president Wick Moorman including a petition containing close to 2000 BMWED signatures, all demanding the reinstituting of our former close call reporting policy.
View the BMWED's letter along with the many, many signatures at this link.
In the year 2000, Amtrak reached consensus with the Unions and adopted a corporate close call procedure that permitted a close call to be reported to Amtrak management without fear that it would become a disciplinary issue.
Attached please find two notices for posting from the Election Supervisor, the Notice of Election and a second Notice Regarding the IBT Officer Candidate Forum.
Teamsters President James Hoffa, Morning Shift just learned, is a designated Michigan delegate to this July’s Democratic National Convention. He’ll pledge his vote to Bernie Sanders, winner of the Michigan primary. The Teamsters have yet to endorse any presidential candidate.
April 29, 2016, Philadelphia, PA, Remarks of General Chairman Dodd, Workers Memorial Day. As we gather here on Workers’ Memorial Day, I bring you greetings of solidarity and friendship from our Union, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees a division of the Teamsters Union. Workers’ Memorial Day is a day in which we remember and honor our friends, coworkers and loved ones who were prematurely taken from us while working to earn a living for themselves and their families. It is a day that we have set aside to recognize that, despite the best wishes of management, the best efforts of our members and the verbal support from the politicians and government regulators, too many of our members — of America’s work force — are killed and injured while working to support their families.
February 16, 2016 - In the face of a number of years of consistently improving operating ratios on the Northeast Corridor where over 90% of Amtrak Maintenance of Way employees and Signalmen are employed, and even though the compensation and benefits for Amtrak Signalmen and Maintenance of way employees are below those of their brothers and sisters on the commuter railroads, Amtrak has offered flat wages, sought dramatic health benefits concessions that would result in a plan substantially inferior to industry standards and proposed previously rejected changes to work rules to remedy alleged problems not caused by the existing work rules.
January 30, 2016 Philadelphia, PA - Remarks of General Chairman Jed Dodd Bernie Sanders for President Rally
Hello Brothers and Sisters!
I bring you greetings of solidarity and friendship from the hardworking men and women who are members of the Pennsylvania Federation Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
