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BMWED Holds Second Regular Convention - June 21-23, 2010
More than 500 delegates from across the country attended the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division's (BMWED) Second Regular Convention, held June 21-23 in Las Vegas. In addition to moving speeches, powerful videos and testimonies of struggle, hard work and victory, the delegates elected their national and regional leaders for the next four years.
View all photos from the BMWED's Second Regular Convention.Rail Labor goes on record concerning possible EPA regulations
A coalition of 5 Rail Labor unions, including the BMWED, have gone on record addressing the negative consequences of an aggressive Environmental Protection Agency approach to greenhouse gases. The attached letter was sent today to the Honorable Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff to President Obama.
Read the response here.NO TEXTING ALLOWED
Regulatory guidance was issued after a study entitled, “Driver Distraction in Commercial Vehicle Operations”, was completed and the agency determined that texting on an electronic device while driving a commercial motor vehicle in interstate commerce poses a significant safety risk.
The statement outlining the same as issued by Teamsters is provided here for your convenience.
Ban Regulatory Guidance – Texting While Driving Ban
High Speed Rail Funding
President Barack Obama is planning awarding billions of dollars to develop a high-speed rail plan that he'll promote as a jobs program.
The grants would be part of the $787 billion recovery act. Several smaller awards will go toward improvements for existing rail lines. Overall, 31 states will receive funds.
Please read the Statement from Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa.
Cash and Non-Cash Compensation in 2010
Cash and non cash compensation
The Health Care Crisis
It's certainly no secret our health care system is broken. It is an incredible burden to both the working people and the industries that still operate in this country. While there have been all types of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) campaigns out there, never have there been so many half truths and out right lies as there is on this topic.
Provided here are a few links on this topic of ever increasing importance.
A perspective on Canadian Health care
Information on Hopeful Legislation
The Employee Free Choice Act:
* Helps Americas working families improve their standard of living. Workers in unions earn 30 percent higher wages and are 59 percent more likely to have employer-provided health insurance.
* Fixes a broken system that gives corporations far too much power. When workers try and organize unions, they are often harassed and intimidated; 25 percent of companies unlawfully fire pro-union workers.
* Restores fairness and the promise of the American Dream, with a robust middle class, economic growth, and shared prosperity.
Its time our economy worked for everyone again. Its time for the Employee Free Choice Act.
Click Here to Find out More and what you can do!
"Of all the forms of inequality,
injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."
Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.