The National AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department ‘Calls for Reforms’ During Rail Safety Week: “We Renew Our Calls For Comprehensive Federal Legislation And Regulatory Action That Meaningfully Enhances Rail Safety” – WNY Labor Today

National AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD) President Greg Regan and Secretary-Treasurer Shari Semelsberger issued the following statement to commemorate Rail Safety Week (which ran last week): “As America’s largest Transportation Labor Federation, representing the totality of Rail Labor and a voice for hundreds of thousands of skilled Rail Workers, we renew our calls for comprehensive Federal legislation and regulatory action that meaningfully enhances rail safety. In recent months, Rail Labor has sounded alarms about dozens of deregulatory measures at the Federal Railroad Administration and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration that would undo progress on railroad safety, putting Workers and communities at risk. We assert Federal regulations such as hands-on training, high-standard certification requirements for Conductors and Locomotive Engineers, and accident reporting regulations exist to prevent injury, damages, and even death. Additionally, current proposals to diminish or potentially eliminate visual safety inspections of railroad track by trained experts in favor of unproven automation technology would simultaneously further public risk and jeopardize the safety of Rail Workers on the job. In repealing or weakening these and other long-standing rules, we take several steps back on safety progress in the Rail Industry. As Transportation Labor, we know that the Nation does not run without the Rail Industry, and the Rail Industry does not run without Workers. For Rail Workers, every hour, day and week that they are on the job is spent with rail safety on their minds. During Rail Safety Week we continue to advocate for rail safety through a holistic approach, from preventing catastrophic derailments to ensuring that Workers return home safely to their families each day.”
Read the full statement from TTD here.
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