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Congress added railroad worker safety laws throughout the 20th century. [118]: 16–25 Significant among this legislation is the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970, which gave the FRA broad responsibilities over all aspects of rail safety, and expanded the agency's authority to cover all railroads, both interstate and intrastate. [123]
A railroad section gang — including common workers sometimes called gandy dancers — responsible for maintenance of a particular section of railway. One man is holding a bar, while others are using rail tongs to position a rail. Photo published in 1917
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.
Sympathy for the Pullman Company workers was widespread among other workers in the railroad industry. The ARU's constitutionally-required biannual convention was forthcoming and delegates representing the 465 locals of the union—which claimed a total membership of about 150,000—assembled in the city to take up matters of concern to the ...
However, the union appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which in 1964 found the prosecution violated the railroad workers' first amendment right to associate, citing NAACP v. Button and Gideon v. Wainwright. [28] The Brotherhood reached its greatest size in 1956, with 217,176 members, after which railroad traffic and employment began to ...
The RLA was the product of negotiations between the major railroad companies and the unions that represented their employees. [10] Like its predecessors, it relied on boards of adjustment, established by the parties, to resolve labor disputes, with a government-appointed Board of Mediation to attempt to resolve those disputes that board of adjustment could not.
Even as workers were building the railroads in the second half of the 19th century, it was dangerous. "You had a clear segmentation of who was doing the construction of the railroads versus who ...
The Great Railroad Strike of 1922, a nationwide railroad shop workers' strike, began on July 1. The immediate cause of the strike was the Railroad Labor Board 's announcement that hourly wages would be cut by seven cents on July 1, which prompted a shop workers' vote on whether or not to strike.