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AAR Statement on Joining Confidential Close Call Reporting System

Railroads Remain Committed to Joining FRA’s Confidential Close Call Reporting System The primary objective of the close call reporting system is to encourage employees to report safety incidents so that employers can take proactive steps, like additional training, to...

634,518

634,518 International containers carried in U.S. freight rail intermodal operations in July, down 15.7% from last year, according to the Intermodal Association of North America.

NLRB Rolls Back Trump-Era Election Rule Remnants.

NLRB Rolls Back Trump-Era Election Rule Remnants. Workers will have to wait less time to vote on whether to unionize after the National Labor Relations Board issued a final rule Thursday unwinding what remains of a 2019 regulation lengthening the election...

Railroad Keeps Win In Suit Over Worker’s Fatal Heart Attack

A Texas appellate panel on Wednesday affirmed the dismissal of a suit seeking to hold Kansas City Southern Railway Co. liable for a railroad conductor’s heart attack death, saying the company’s adoption of certain workplace safety policies didn’t...

635,294

635,294 Combined loaded imports into the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in July, in 20 foot-equivalent units, down 26.3% from July 2022 and off 10.5% from June in the lowest monthly volume this year.

11th Circ. Mulls Whether Severance-Seeking CSX Exec Quit.

11th Circ. Mulls Whether Severance-Seeking CSX Exec Quit. An Eleventh Circuit panel on Tuesday grappled with whether to revive a former CSX Transportation Inc. vice president’s claim that the company wrongfully denied him severance benefits under a plan for...