CONTENTS
Volume 11, Number 8 -- August 1997
- Page 1
- BLE Organizes six Wisconsin Central divisions
- Teamsters end strike
- BLE wage/rule panel hits early roadblocks
- Page 2, Capitol Briefs
- BLE's Washington D.C. office moves
- Amtrak funding gets victory in the Senate
- Page 3, Mobilization Report
- Mobilization organizing event held in Arkansas
- Via Rail organized, mobilized in Toronto
- Page 4, Canadian Spotlight
- BLE engineers sign new agreement with CP Railway
- Frequently asked questions about the new agreement
- Page 5
- Missouri Supreme Court stops Union Pacific's engineer harassment
- CSX North, West re-elect General Chairmen
- New videos from the BLE Education & Training Dept.
- BLE Job Bank -- Union Pacific, CP Railway hiring certified locomotive
engineers
- Advisory Board July Activity Report
- Page 6, BLE Senior Report
- Railroad retirement system maintains financial stability
- RRB Q&A Part III: children, widows may be eligible for benefits
- Page 7
- Conrail BLErs rally with Detroit newspaper strikers
- Heavy rains, flash flooding causes Amtrak derailment in Arizona
- AFL-CIO International convention set for September 22
- Page 8
- 1997 SWCM offers one day haz-mat training class
- 1998 IWC planned for Tucson, May 26-30
- BLE Calendar
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Published by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
1370 Ontario St., Cleveland, OH 44113-1702