Drummac Workers are Fighting for a Living Wage

DID YOU KNOW? Amtrak contracts with a company called Drummac to safely load and unload vehicles from their auto trains. Add your email to join the cause and help these workers get the wages they deserve.

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Union Plus Programs for TCU Members

TCU fully supports the programs available for active and retired TCU members and their families. With the money savings programs available, in some situations, the benefits can offset paid union dues.

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2025 Fringe Benefits

Cost of Wages and Fringe Benefits as of January 2025 for Carmen and Clerks.

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TCU/ARASA Wins Historic Award

TCU/ARASA Amtrak On-Board Supervisors recently won a historic victory, when Arbitrator Edwin Benn ruled that Amtrak violated their collective bargaining agreement by creating management jobs to perform the work of abolished ARASA On-Board Chief positions. As a result of the award, the Carrier returned the disputed work to ARASA and created 19 new ARASA positions

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Railroad National Health and Welfare Plan Workers Fully Covered for Swine Flu Vaccine

In an effort to minimize the occurrence of H1N1 flu among Railroad Plan participants and their dependents, the Railroad Employees National Health and Welfare Plan and the National Railway Carriers and their healthcare providers (Aetna, Highmark as well as the Railroad Employees National Early Retirement Major Medical Benefit Plan and its medical vendor United Healthcare),

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2010 Employee Cost Sharing Announcement – Railroad Employee’s National Health and Welfare Plan

The annual rate renewal meeting for the Railroad Employees National Health and Welfare Plan (the “Plan”) was held in Washington, D.C., on October 27, 2009, at which time payment rates for 2010 were established. Rail Labor (the Cooperating Railway Labor Organizations (CRLO) as a Joint Policyholder participated in the annual rate-setting meeting on an equal

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TCU Joins Other Unions Asking for Real Health Care Reform

Twenty-seven U.S. labor unions, including TCU, announced their opposition to the $829 billion health-care measure passed by the Senate Finance Committee. The full-page newspaper advertisement placed recently in many large circulation newspapers say that lawmakers need to make “substantial” changes to the bill or they will urge their members to seek its defeat on the

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