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Amtrak - Inside Amtrak - Government Affairs - State Fact Sheets
BLET Amtrak General Committee of Ajustment
Illinois Association of Railroad Passengers
NARP - National Association of Railroad Passengers
National Corridors Initiative, Inc. - Home Page
Presidential Emergency Board #242 Report 1/13/2008
Virginia Association of Railway Patrons
Amtrak Chief Executive Officer and President David Gunn presented with the approval of the Amtrak Board of Directors a plan to the Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the full Senate Commerce Committee called "Strategic Reform Initiative" which calls for an appropriation of $1.8 billion with the provision that several reforms are put in place. Some of these reforms include:
Changes to the Railway Labor Act for Amtrak only that would let Amtrak terminate agreements at the end of a term allowing management to impose new terms and unions to exercise self-help (Strike).
Place all new employees in Social Security.
Have the Federal Government assume $3.8 billion in debt thereby removing the need for nearly $300 million in annual funding to railroad retirement.
This is a link to the Amtrak Strategic Reform Initiative. PDF
You can do a search of the above document using the key words "railway labor" and "retirement" to bring up the above referenced items.