Members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Dvision’s (BMWED) Unified System Federation have finalized a paid sick leave agreement with The Belt Railway Co. of Chicago.
The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division-International Brotherhood of Teamsters (BMWED) on Jan. 24 reported finalizing a paid sick leave agreement with the former Bessemer & Lake Erie, Grand Trunk Western,
The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED) has announced that members of its Chicago Passenger Federation (CPF) have voted to merge with its United Passenger Rail Federation (UPRF).
Call it the Twilight Zone of reality when three rail labor unions embrace the convictions of extreme-right public figures Tucker Carlson (Fox News), Republican Governors Greg Abbott (Texas) and Ron DeSantis (Florida), and Republican Senators Ted Cruz (Texas) and Rand Paul (Kentucky) and oppose vaccine mandates intended to protect society against the deadly COVID-19 virus and its Delta variant.
