What's Inside Volume 15 - Number 8 August 2001 DC Feedback: Handrail chain requirements Members attend legislative training session in Cleveland News Briefs Two BLE officers receive labor degrees Divisions must be 'square on the books' to seat delegates Canadian Spotlight: Engineers plead for action on fatigue Canadian Spotlight: En Francias BLE Senior Report: Importance of a 'current connection' 2001 RRB Informational Conferences House voting results for H.R. 1140 Advisory Board July Activity Calendar & Events

Members to vote on merger BLE members should now have in hand ballots to vote on the union's proposed merger with the United Transportation Union, a merger that would create the second-largest transportation union in the AFL-CIO. Complete Story On to the Senate! By a 384-33 majority, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Railroad Retirement and Survivors' Act of 2001 on July 31. It is now imperative that H.R. 1140's companion in the Senate, S. 697, be the first order of business when Senators return from their recess on September 4. Complete Story BLE scores Indiana & Ohio organizing victory The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers took a huge leap forward in organizing the vast shortline industry on August 3 as workers on the Indiana & Ohio Railroad, a subsidiary of shortline giant RailAmerica, selected the BLE as their collective bargaining representative. Complete Story

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