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Scenes from this month's BMWED Legislative Directors and Assistants Workshop in Washington D.C.
Members from 21 different states convened this week in Washington, D.C. in their roles as state legislative directors to sweep Capitol Hill on behalf of the BMWED-IBT and Rail Labor.
BMWED Vice President Sean Gerie, Director of Safety Roy Morrison and Director of Government Affairs Jeff Joines met with Buttigieg and Bose in Washington, D.C. where the two announced a new FRA rule mandating two-person train crews on all Class I freight carriers.
Thanks to the diligent work of BMWED State Legislative Directors, the BMWED is making significant progress in adding on-track equipment to state highway crossing law nationwide.
Today’s announcement of the historic $6.1 billion investment in high-speed rail projects, the largest federal commitment to passenger trains American history, will at long last make train travel feasible and reliable for millions nationwide.
The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) up to $8,800,000 in Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement (CRISI) grant money for a Engineering Track Foremen Workforce Development Apprenticeship Training Program in Pennsylvania.
U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) and Jamaal Bowman, Ed.D. (D-N.Y.) introduced the Rail Worker and Community Safety Act. This bill will make much needed improvements to federal rail safety regulations, including mandates for a two-person crew, changes to ways hazardous materials can be transported, increases funding for rail safety inspectors, and codifies mandatory sick leave for all rail workers.
An appropriations bill advanced out of the U.S. House Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Subcommittee calls for crippling spending cuts to Amtrak that would threaten extinction of the network and the loss of thousands of jobs, including those of hardworking BMWED members.
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