Railroad Workers United Archives - Labor Today /es/ Publication of Labor United Educational League Mon, 23 Jun 2025 02:17:26 +0000 es hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://i0.wp.com/labortoday.luel.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-E9B521F7-025C-4CC9-BB53-1FA94A395922.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Railroad Workers United Archives - Labor Today /es/ 32 32 210291732 RWU: Rail Fatality Alert! – Transtar Rail Worker Killed June 16th in AL https://labortoday.luel.us/es/rwu-rail-fatality-alert-transtar-rail-worker-killed-june-16th-in-al/ https://labortoday.luel.us/es/rwu-rail-fatality-alert-transtar-rail-worker-killed-june-16th-in-al/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 02:17:24 +0000 https://labortoday.luel.us/?p=3633 Transtar rail worker Michael Dewaine Townsend, 39, died from blunt force injuries after being hit by a railcar in an accident that occurred about 11 p.m. on Monday, June 16 in Fairfield, Ala. A Transtar statement said,“we are investigating the…

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Transtar rail worker Michael Dewaine Townsend, 39, died from blunt force injuries after being hit by a railcar in an accident that occurred about 11 p.m. on Monday, June 16 in Fairfield, Ala.

A Transtar statement said,“we are investigating the incident and are cooperating with investigations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board”. Due to the nature of the ongoing investigations, we will not be commenting further on the incident.”

Transtar, which operates seven railroads serving U.S. Steel facilities, was sold by the steelmaker to Fortress Transportation in 2021. Its Fairfield Southern railroad provides in-plant rail service for U.S. Steel’s Fairfield Works, located approximately 10 miles west of Birmingham.

While we are saddened at the news of our brother’s death, we must double our resolve to build a safer workplace where such tragedies are not so commonplace.

The Railroad Workers United Program for Fallen Rails urges you to do the following on behalf of our fallen brother, his friends and family, co-workers and all railroad workers:

Commit yourself to following up on how and why our brother or sister was killed. What is the behind-the-scenes story? What role did unsafe conditions, including short staffing, crew fatigue, inadequate training and/or qualifying, deferred maintenance, or other factors play in this fellow worker’s death?

Get involved in the national movement against blame the worker “behavior-based safety” programs. Help build real union-based safety committees and programs that focus on hazard elimination and do not ignore the underlying causes of accidents, injuries and fatalities sustained on the job. For more information, see the RWU webpage entitled “Oppose Behavior Based Safety.”

Take part in the RWU annual Railroad Workers Memorial Day each April 28th. For more information, see the RWU webpage “Fallen Rails.”

Join RWU and fight to build solidarity and unity among all railroad workers, and make safer workplaces for all.

Thank you,
Los Trabajadores Del Ferrocarril De Los Estados

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RWU: Spring 2025 Issue of The Highball https://labortoday.luel.us/es/rwu-spring-2025-issue-of-the-highball/ Fri, 16 May 2025 23:25:30 +0000 https://labortoday.luel.us/?p=3581 The post RWU: Spring 2025 Issue of The Highball appeared first on Labor Today.

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RWU Greetings for International Workers’ Day https://labortoday.luel.us/es/rwu-greetings-for-international-workers-day/ Thu, 01 May 2025 15:29:00 +0000 https://labortoday.luel.us/?p=3528 May 1st is a global celebration of the international labor movement and is recognized as a national holiday or formally celebrated in a majority of countries worldwide. Variously called International Workers’ Day, May Day, and International Labour Day, it is…

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El 1º de mayo es una celebración mundial del movimiento obrero internacional y es reconocido como un día de fiesta nacional o formalmente celebrado en la mayoría de países de todo el mundo. Diversamente llamado Día Internacional de los Trabajadores, el Día de Mayo, y el Día Internacional del Trabajo, se celebra de forma extraoficial en muchos otros países en todo el mundo, incluyendo los Estados unidos.

Puede que el Día tiene sus orígenes en los Estados unidos, en el siglo 19, con un innovador y la histórica huelga para el día de ocho horas. Día Internacional De Los Trabajadores se conmemora el 1886 asunto de Haymarket en Chicago. El 1 de Mayo de 1886, en Chicago sindicalistas, los reformadores, los socialistas, los anarquistas, y los trabajadores ordinarios convocado como parte de un proceso de largo plazo de la organización de la campaña para hacer de Chicago, el centro del movimiento nacional de un día de ocho horas.

Durante este largo período de lucha, en la tarde del 4 de Mayo de 1886, en Chicago la policía trató de dispersar una reunión pacífica de los trabajadores en Haymarket Square, cuando un pistolero no identificado lanzó una bomba. La policía reaccionó despidiendo a los trabajadores, matando a un número de manifestantes. Los organizadores de la manifestación, fueron acusados de asesinato, pero no hay evidencia se ha encontrado una vinculación a los bombardeos. Cuatro de ellos conocidos como los "Mártires de Haymarket" fueron ahorcados el año siguiente. 

En 1889, el primer congreso de la Segunda Internacional Workingmen de la Asociación, celebrada en París en el centenario de la Revolución francesa, se llama laboral internacional manifestaciones en la década de 1890 aniversario de la Chicago protestas. Luego, en 1891, El Primer Día De Mayo fue reconocido formalmente como un evento anual Internacional del Segundo Congreso. En los años siguientes, la clase obrera en muchos países trataron de hacer del Día de Mayo, un día festivo oficial, y sus esfuerzos se logró en gran medida. 

En los Estados unidos y Canadá, sin embargo, el funcionario de vacaciones para los trabajadores es El Día Del Trabajo en el mes de septiembre. Después de que el Incidente de Haymarket en Chicago, el Presidente de estados UNIDOS Grover Cleveland "temía" que conmemora el Día del Trabajo el 1 de Mayo se convertiría en una oportunidad para conmemorar Haymarket y radical trabajador de la lucha. Por lo tanto, él empujó para estados UNIDOS el Día del Trabajo para ser el primer lunes de septiembre.

En los Estados unidos, los esfuerzos oficialmente interruptor de mano de obra hasta el 1 de Mayo han sido infructuosos. Sin embargo, un número de sindicatos y vecinos de la zona — especialmente en las zonas urbanas, con un fuerte apoyo para el trabajo organizado — han mantenido una relación con el trabajo de parto tradiciones a través de sus propias no oficiales de las celebraciones del 1 de Mayo.

Hoy, 1 de Mayo de 2025, las personas que trabajan en todo el mundo — incluyendo a millones de personas aquí en América del Norte — celebrar el Día Internacional de los Trabajadores. Como railroaders, vamos a celebrar la dignidad de todos los trabajadores, destacando las condiciones de trabajo en nuestro propio sector. La negativa generalizada de los efectos de Precisión Horario de Ferrocarriles (PSR) son bien conocidos para millones de Estadounidenses. Los rieles han hecho sonar la alarma por años, la educación de los medios de comunicación, los políticos y el público no seguros y las prácticas irresponsables de Una Clase de multimillonarios.

Rieles de continuar la lucha contra los peligros de la larga y pesada de los trenes, el incesante de lucro centrada en los intentos de implementación de una persona de las tripulaciones, la falta de una adecuada inversión en el mantenimiento y la inspección, y el vuelo de los trabajadores de la industria ferroviaria debido a la erosión de las condiciones de trabajo.

Además, en abril de 2024, RWU aprobó una resolución en apoyo de la UAW Presidente de Fain pidiendo comunes fechas de vencimiento del contrato a través de las industrias para coordinar a un Día de Mayo (1 de Mayo) 2028 de caducidad.

Los Trabajadores del ferrocarril de los Estados ha puesto la seguridad, el bienestar, la calidad del empleo, y las voces de trabajo railroaders en el centro de su organización desde el año 2008. Nos amplificar sus voces hoy en día y mantener el espíritu de la clase obrera de resistencia, rango & archivo de la democracia, y la buena troublemaking vivo en el sector ferroviario.

Compruebe los enlaces de abajo de Mayo, Día de los recursos y tomar parte de las actividades del primero de Mayo en su área, ya que celebramos NUESTRO día — Día Internacional de los Trabajadores.
 
Solidaridad Para Siempre,
Los Trabajadores Del Ferrocarril De Los Estados

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RWU Resolution to Bring Brother Kilmar Garcia Home https://labortoday.luel.us/es/rwu-resolution-to-bring-brother-kilmar-garcia-home/ Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:25:33 +0000 https://labortoday.luel.us/?p=3503 The International Steering Committee (ISC) of Railroad Workers United passed a resolution to bring home Brother Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a legally protected immigrant and SMART Union member. Kilmar was deported by the Trump administration without due process to a…

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El Comité Directivo Internacional (ISC) de los Trabajadores del Ferrocarril Unidas aprobó una resolución de traer a casa el Hermano Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, legalmente protegidos de los inmigrantes y SMART miembro de la Unión. Kilmar fue deportado por el Triunfo de la administración, sin el proceso debido a un Salvadoreño mega-prisión — a pesar de la celebración de protecciones legales en vigor en el momento de su aprehensión por el HIELO.

Un juez federal, apoyados por el Tribunal Supremo de estados UNIDOS, no encontró ninguna base legal para su deportación, sin embargo, los funcionarios federales ignorado las órdenes de la corte, hizo públicas falsas afirmaciones, le negó el debido proceso y violación de Kilmar los derechos de establecimiento de un precedente peligroso para todos nosotros.

El SMART Unión, Kilmar de la comunidad, y sus aliados están exigiendo Kilmar el retorno seguro, un final con la suya y la de su familia, el sufrimiento, y una defensa del debido proceso — la fundación de un trato justo dentro y fuera del trabajo. Los Trabajadores del ferrocarril de los Estados está en solidaridad con este llamado y exhorta a todos los miembros del sindicato para defender los derechos de los trabajadores nacidos fuera de los estados UNIDOS que están ahora tan injustamente atacados.

Esta lucha es más que uno de los miembros—se trata de la protección de los derechos de cada trabajador depende.

La resolución completa se puede leer a continuación:

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RWU: Winter 2025 Issue of The Highball https://labortoday.luel.us/es/rwu-winter-2025-issue-of-the-highball/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:05:11 +0000 https://labortoday.luel.us/?p=3240 The post RWU: Winter 2025 Issue of The Highball appeared first on Labor Today.

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RWU Greetings for Martin Luther King Day 2025 https://labortoday.luel.us/es/rwu-greetings-for-martin-luther-king-day-2025/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:08:33 +0000 https://labortoday.luel.us/?p=3215 Hoy celebramos a Martin Luther King, Jr., Día del natalicio, la vida, el trabajo, y activista de la lucha de la emblemática líder de los Derechos Civiles. Este día ha sido designado un día de fiesta federal desde el año 1986.Mientras que aproximadamente uno de cada tres trabajadores de estados UNIDOS se conceden...

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Today, we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, honoring the birthday, life, work, and activist struggle of the iconic Civil Rights leader. This day has been a designated federal holiday since 1986.
While roughly one in three U.S. workers are granted this holiday, MLK Day has yet to be recognized by U.S. rail carriers. Please see the RWU Resolution in Support of a Paid Holiday for All Railroaders on MLK Day.

Railroad Workers United (RWU) urges all railroad workers to remember and honor the life of this great American. A tireless fighter for civil rights, King was also a champion of organized labor and trade unionism. Rhetoric on this day often overlooks that when he was murdered by assassination on April 4, 1968, King was in Memphis, Tennessee to support the efforts of the sanitation workers there to organize a union.

King’s support of unions was longstanding, though that endorsement was not reciprocated by unions, including most rail unions that did not offer membership to Black Americans. In 1961, King’s address at the AFL-CIO’s annual convention was considered a turning point. At the Convention, King observed:

"Our needs are identical with labor’s needs: decent wages, fair working conditions, livable housing, old-age security, health and welfare measures, conditions in which families can grow, have education for their children, and respect in the community. That is why Negroes support labor’s demands and fight laws which curb labor. That is why the labor-hater and labor-baiter is virtually always a twin-headed creature spewing anti-Negro epithets from one mouth and anti-labor propaganda from the other mouth.”

In the last year of his life, King embarked upon organizing a “Poor People’s Campaign” designed to unite people of all races in a struggle to redistribute the wealth and power in society to common everyday working people.

"I think it is necessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights … [W]hen we see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic and political power, then we see that for the last twelve years we have been in a reform movement…That after Selma and the Voting Rights Bill, we moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution…In short, we have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society.”

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RWU: UP Rails Phillip Araujo, 47, and Clay Burt, 63, Killed December 18th in Pecos, TX https://labortoday.luel.us/es/rwu-up-rails-phillip-araujo-47-and-clay-burt-63-killed-december-18th-in-pecos-tx/ Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:22:17 +0000 https://labortoday.luel.us/?p=3143 Felipe Araujo, de 47 años, y la Arcilla Burt, de 63 años, fueron asesinados el 18 de diciembre en Pecos, Texas. Los dos miembros de la tripulación murió después de su Unión Pacífico tren chocó con un tractor-remolque, camión miércoles (Dec. 18) y descarrilar, el envío de los vagones en un borde de pista...

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Phillip Araujo, 47, and Clay Burt, 63, were killed December 18th in Pecos, Texas.

The two crew members died after their Union Pacific train collided with a tractor-trailer truck on Wednesday (Dec. 18) and derailed, sending railcars into a trackside building.

Pecos Police Chief Lisa Tarango said the deceased workers were “veteran employees” of the railroad. Union Pacific has identified them as engineer Clay Burt, 63, an employee since 1998, and conductor Phillip Araujo, 47, who had been with the railroad since 2012.

The incident occurred about 5 p.m. with a collision near Oak and Dot Stafford streets, and led to derailed cars hitting the Pecos Chamber of Commerce building, a former Texas & Pacific Railway station. Video circulating widely on social media shows the train hitting a truck carrying an oversized load that was blocking the grade crossing.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, in a statement today, said, “Our hearts go out to the families of the conductor and engineer who lost their lives” in the incident. The union said it is limited in what it can say about the incident because it is a party to the NTSB’s investigation, but that it “should serve as a wake-up call to legislators to improve rail safety all across the United States. All railroad accidents are avoidable.”

While we are saddened at the news of our brothers’ deaths, we must double our resolve to build a safer workplace where such tragedies are not so commonplace.

The Railroad Workers United Program for Fallen Rails urges you to do the following on behalf of our fallen brother, his friends and family, co-workers and all railroad workers:

Commit yourself to following up on how and why our brother or sister was killed. What is the behind-the-scenes story? What role did unsafe conditions, including short staffing, crew fatigue, inadequate training and/or qualifying, deferred maintenance, or other factors play in this fellow worker’s death?

Get involved in the national movement against blame the worker “behavior-based safety” programs. Help build real union-based safety committees and programs that focus on hazard elimination and do not ignore the underlying causes of accidents, injuries and fatalities sustained on the job. For more information, see the RWU webpage entitled “Oppose Behavior Based Safety.”

Take part in the RWU annual Railroad Workers Memorial Day each April 28th. For more information, see the RWU webpage “Fallen Rails.”

Join RWU and fight to build solidarity and unity among all railroad workers, and make safer workplaces for all.

Thank you,
Los Trabajadores Del Ferrocarril De Los Estados

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Harry Bridges School of Labor 2024 Session 12: The Case For Public Rail Recording Now Available https://labortoday.luel.us/es/harry-bridges-school-of-labor-2024-session-12-the-case-for-public-rail-recording-now-available/ Mon, 23 Dec 2024 03:26:30 +0000 https://labortoday.luel.us/?p=3140 De trabajo de los Estados Educativo de la Liga está orgulloso de anunciar que estamos liberando las grabaciones de Harry Puentes de la Escuela de Trabajo de las sesiones. Lanzado en la Primavera de 2023, la de Harry Puentes de la Escuela de la mano de obra es de una clase mensual a cabo 2 veces por mes. Clases de...

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Labor United Educational League is proud to announce we are releasing the recordings from the Harry Bridges School of Labor sessions. Launched in Spring 2023, the Harry Bridges School of Labor is a monthly class held 2x per month. Classes cover a variety of topics aimed at building class conscious among union members. The twelfth session for 2024 of the Harry Bridges School of Labor was on the Case For Public Rail. In this class we were joined by Adam, the National Organizer for the Public Rail Now Campaign.

Usted puede encontrar nuestro Canal de YouTube aquí:
https://www.youtube.com/@laborunited

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RWU: Fall 2024 Issue of The Highball https://labortoday.luel.us/es/rwu-fall-2024-issue-of-the-highball/ Sun, 08 Dec 2024 16:15:14 +0000 https://labortoday.luel.us/?p=3101 The post RWU: Fall 2024 Issue of The Highball appeared first on Labor Today.

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RWU: Putting America Back on Track—The Case for Public Rail Ownership https://labortoday.luel.us/es/rwu-putting-america-back-on-track-the-case-for-public-rail-ownership/ Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:19:43 +0000 https://labortoday.luel.us/?p=3090 Editor’s Note: This video was first released in October of last year promoting the nationalization of the railroads. In a little over one year it has lead to a growing coalition, Public Rail Now. LUEL has joined this coalition and…

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Editor’s Note: This video was first released in October of last year promoting the nationalization of the railroads. In a little over one year it has lead to a growing coalition, Public Rail Now. LUEL has joined this coalition and we call on all progressive organizations to join in this struggle, a nationalized railroad can only improve the lives of all working-class people in the US.

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