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The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees (BMWED)

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  • Teamster elections: inspiration from the ground up

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    The fifth supervised Teamster election under a federal consent decree ended on November 18th, 2006 with the Hoffa slate declared the victors. They were challenged by an opposition slate led by Portland Oregon Local 206 secretary treasurer Tom Leedham and New York City Local 805 president Sandy Pope, and endorsed by the Teamster reform caucus, Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU).

  • Rail Workers United off to a highballing start

    Railroad workers in the United States are scattered among many unions. Railroad Workers United, a new alliance of rail workers, reaches across unions, craft lines, and employing rail lines to introduce the spirit of unity. It is not still another union but a movement which advocates common action by those unions that already bargain for rail workers. Under its ambitious watchword: "Unity-Solidarity-Democracy: the Rank and File in Action," RWU embarks on its own campaigns in their general interests.

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  • Railroad Workers United

    "We are an inter-union cross-craft solidarity "caucus" of railroad workers from all crafts, all carriers, and all unions across North America."

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