Title: Railroad Workers United
Headings: Welcome to Railroad Workers United
Welcome to Railroad Workers United
A Place for All North American Rail Workers
RWU Endorses the Efforts of the Movement for a People’s Party to form a New U.S. Political Party
RWU Open Letter to President-Elect Joe Biden
Coronavirus and the Railroad
The Year of the Derailment - 2019
Major Derailments of 2019
RWU Steps Up Campaign in Support of the Two Person Train Crew
SMART-TD Union Solicits Technology Failures from Train and Engine Crews
POSITIVE TRAIN CONTROL (PTC) - TRIP OPTIMIZER / LEADER
Oppose “Precision Scheduled Railroading”
Two-person Crew Legislation Gains Momentum
Become an RWU Sustainer Today!
Contact Congress in Support of Two-person Crew Legislation
Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121
Protect the Safety of Railroad Workers and the Community:
No Single Employee Train Crews!
RWU Facebook Page
RWU YouTube Channel
Check out the RWU newsletter “The Highball”
Behavior-Based Safety: Myth or Magic?
The Railroad Workers Education & Legal Defense Foundation
RWU Rail Safety Conferences
Brother J.P Wright's Away-from-Home TV Report
Why an Alliance of Rail Labor & the Community is Essential
What’s Wrong with Single Employee Train Operations?
RWU Founding Convention Video
RWU Program to Honor and Remember Fallen Rails
RWU Campaign Against Single Employee Train Crews
RWU Campaign against “Blame-the-Worker” Safety Programs
Railroad Workers United: The Video
RWU Member Mark Burrows
RWU Adopts a Series of New Resolutions at 6th Biennial Convention
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Content: NOTE: while these numbers are thankfully low, RWU counts more than 20 total rail fatalities for 2019. That will be the subject of a separate email). Why such a spike in derailments and fatalities? We believe the short answer is Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR). With its insistence on running longer and heavier trains, utilizing fewer locomotives, shuttering diesel shops, expediting train and engine inspections, cutting back on track maintenance forces, implementing "super" pools, trimming of extra boards, and cuts to practically every aspect of the operation, PSR is proving to be a disaster. A compliant Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), turning a blind eye to it all and giving the rail industry the green light in effect to "self-regulate", does not help matters. RWU has done our best to collect and document these derailments of the past year. NOTE : It is quite likely that we missed a few, perhaps many.