Unions

Unions pressure Congress to protect against Postal Service changes

Rural letter carriers are scheduled Tuesday to rally on Capitol Hill for the launch of a national campaign urging Congress to block any attempts by the Trump administration to privatize the U.S. Postal Service. 

More than 100 letter carriers are slated to gather to raise awareness of the stakes to rural communities from efforts to strip the Postal Service of its independent status as a government enterprise and sell it to private investors, which some conservatives argue would improve...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/unions-pressure-congress-to-protect-against-postal-service-changes

Container volumes post third-best January at Port of NY-NJ

January container volumes at the Port of New York and New Jersey showed continued growth at the East Coast’s largest import gateway.

The hub handled 720,283 twenty-foot equivalent units, according to the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, an increase of 7.9% y/y and the port’s third-highest ever for the month.

The fast start continues the growth trend observed in recent years, topped only by January 2022 at 765,050 TEUs and January 2021’s 721,284 TEUs.

The growth continues the port’s...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/container-volumes-post-third-best-january-at-port-of-ny-nj

Air Canada labor dispute puts supply chains at risk

Air Canada joined business groups on Thursday in calling for the Canadian government to intervene to prevent a strike by the airline’s pilots that could start within days.

The nation’s flag carrier urged officials to order binding arbitration to resolve stalled contract talks between the company and its 5,200 unionized pilots, saying a potential strike would cause severe economic disruption for the country by halting air travel and delaying time-sensitive cargo shipments.

Last week, Air Canada ann...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/air-canada-labor-dispute-puts-supply-chains-at-risk

CSX adds more union agreements

Eastern railroad CSX late Friday announced it had reached tentative agreements on new contracts with seven additional unions, just days after agreeing to pacts with an initial five unions.

The new contracts underscore the growing power of labor as employers struggle to staff workforces following the pandemic, and came shortly after Norfolk Southern and BNSF said they had negotiated similar early contracts with a number of their unions. The early pacts also avoid the kind of labor disruptions curr...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/csx-adds-more-union-agreements

NS, BNSF reach early contracts with unions

Norfolk Southern and BNSF late Friday said they had, in partnership, reached tentative, five-year collective bargaining agreements with a number of their unions.

The railroad pacts come four months before the opening of the next bargaining round and cover approximately 30% of the unionized NS (NASDAQ: NSC) workforce and 15% of BNSF (workers.

The early deals are yet another sign of labors’ growing bargaining strength as railroads and other employers struggle to fill out their workforces following...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ns-bnsf-reach-early-contracts-with-unions

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