An arbitrator has determined that the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Union-Transportation Division (SMART-TD) must resume negotiations over train crew size and staffing, according to the National Railway Labor Conference (NRLC), a group that represents the freight railroads.
The arbitrator determined that standard moratorium language in decades-old labor agreements does not bar negotiations over crew size on...
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