CONTENTS
Volume 11, Number 9 -- September 1997
- Page 1
- "Fundamental breakdown" on Union Pacific, 57% of its locomotives
defective
- BLE tops UTU on Via Rail in Canada, gains 260 new members
- Certification issue settled -- effective date and back pay only issues
remaining
- Page 2
- Operation Lifesaver rolls through Ohio
- Monin, city of Lakewood say "no" to NS, CSX purchase of Conrail
- BLE newsletter wins first place award from Association of Railway Communicators
- Page 3, Mobilization Report
- Philadelphia mobilization rally focuses on NS, CSX buy-out of Conrail
- Page 4, Canadian Spotlight
- Canadian National Legislative Board gives $2,000 to candidates
- New dues procedure in Canada
- Page 5
- Monin attends Sheridan, Wyo. Division 624 meeting, picnic
- BLE Job Bank, Utah Railway Company
- Advisory Board August Activity report
- Page 6
- Early steps taken to correct UP problems
- BLE Safety Task Force probes UP's fatal August 20 crash in Ft. Worth
- Select passage from FRA's 17-page report after two-week investigation
of UP
- Page 7
- BLE officials report "working conditions intolerable" on
UP
- BLE backs UP's management shake-up; King new UP of Operations
- Page 8
- BLE Membership on the rise!
- BLE Calendar
- Fees objector policy
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