Federal court rules unions can’t strike over BNSF attendance policy

A federal judge has ruled that two major rail unions can’t go on strike against BNSF over their objections to the railroad’s new “Hi Viz” attendance policy. 

Judge Mark T. Pittman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Fort Worth said the dispute between BNSF (NYSE: BRK.B) and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers – Transportation Division (SMART-TD) is a minor...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/federal-court-rules-unions-cant-strike-over-bnsf-attendance-policy

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