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Qualified railroad retirement beneficiaries are covered by Medicare in the same way as social security beneficiaries. As noted, the RRB pays retirement annuities to employees, as well as their spouses and/or divorced spouses, if the employee had at least 10 years of railroad service, or 5 years if performed after 1995.
This is a list of railroad executives, ... (Dutch Railways) 2013–present; Hughes, David, Amtrak 2005–2006 [81] Hughitt, Marvin, CNW 1887–1910 [79]
The following is a list of unions and brotherhoods playing a significant role in the railroad industry of the United States of America.Many of these entities changed names and merged over the years; this list is based upon the names current during the height of American railway unionism in the first decades of the 20th century.
By 1901, 17 major railway brotherhood were in operation; they generally worked amicably with management, which recognize their usefulness. [1] Key unions included the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE), the Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. [ 2 ]
In the years before merging with TCU, the brotherhood remained active in the realm of organized rail labor. Their main achievement during this era was the amendment of the Railway Retirement Act of 1937, which was signed by President Roosevelt and established a railroad retirement system, separate from the social security program. [1]
Great Northern Railway (GN) Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway [7] Fernley and Lassen Railway; Fredericksburg and Northern Railway [8] Hudson Bay Railway (HBR) Houston Belt & Terminal Railroad [9] Houston, East & West Texas Railroad [10] Houston & Texas Central Railway [11] Illinois Central Railroad (IC) Inter-California Railway; Intercolonial ...
During the eastern railroad strike of 1913, Erie Railroad employees demanded a 20% increase in wages. Erie management had refused a wage increase but compromised by asking employees to wait until January 1915 for any advance. W.G. Lee said that the only way "to deal with the Erie is through J.P. Morgan & Company, or the banks".
The Railway Labor Executives' Association was the primary organization pushing for railroad retirement legislation, which was first enacted in 1934. [10] In addition to the layoff provisions mentioned above, the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act of 1933 also contained provisions (again drafted by Richberg) which outlawed " yellow dog ...