Mon 18 May 2009
UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION, v. BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA FE RAILROAD COMPANY and LONGVIEW SWITCHING COMPANY,
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today released an opinion in UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION, v. BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA FE RAILROAD COMPANY and LONGVIEW SWITCHING COMPANY,, No. 07-35066, a federal appeal. The panel consisted of Carlos T. Bea and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges, and Joseph M. Hood, Senior District Judge.
HOOD, Senior District Judge:
In its Complaint, Plaintiff-Appellant United Transportation Union, General Committee of Adjustment GO-386 (”Union”) alleged that Defendants-Appellees Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Company (”BNSF”) and Longview Switching Company (”LSC”) violated the Railway Labor Act (”RLA”), 45 U.S.C. § 151, et seq., by implementing a trackage rights agreement approved through the process prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Act (hereinafter, “ICA”), 49 U.S.C. § 10101, et seq., without bargaining with the Union. (more…)
USPS Mail Transport Equipment (MTE) consists of specialized containers such as sacks, pouches, trays, hampers, over-the-road containers and pallets. The Postal Service has more than 1.1 billion pieces of MTE, which is used at close to 400 processing facilities, over 33,000 post offices and hundreds of major mailers nationwide to help achieve the safe, secure and timely movement of mail between Postal Service facilities and its customers or contractors.
Transportation consultants can play a key role in helping you save time and money. We have found there are 10 major issues you should consider when hiring a transportation consultant. In part 1 of our two part series we will look at the first five. In part two we will review the remainder.
Information Systems Experts (ISE), LLC, a leader in Microsoft Business Intelligence and Wireless application development for the Transportation and Logistics Industries has opened a new office in Jacksonville, Florida.
Transportation Management. How often have we talked about this crirical aspect of a supply chain. Well, not too often I guess. We are all obsessed with increasing production, boosting Sales and increasing customer satisfaction to drive economic growth. But we very often tend to overlook this part of the order fulfillment. May be we are not to blame entirely. The Transportation domain is very dynamic. Any planning or management requires a tool which is flexible yet accurate at the same time. Is it a tough ask? Yes it is. The number of factors which go into transportation planning can be enormous. Add to it some external factors and it makes a perfect recepie for trouble.
So, before I write about the joys of Prague last week… I want to get something off my chest first.
The House just passed HB 300, the sunset bill that seeks to revamp the Texas Department of Transportation, and it’s not a moment too soon. They argued for nine hours yesterday, running though about 101 amendments, till about midnight before adjourning.
In ancient time, people had to purchase cars from confined dealers due to the intricacy in transporting a vehicle from one destination to another. But now the scenario has been changed, with the aid of auto transport companies, people can purchase cars from anywhere in the world. Auto transport companies are useful for military personnel, personage or seminary students who frequently changes their locations and have to transmit the vehicles to its new destination. Many people think it’s vital and not as much of expensive to bond an auto transport companies to ship their cars, rather than transporting them themselves across the country. So it’s really very important to choose the auto transport companies as car is the most precious and valuable asset of the people.
Evercore Partners, the boutique investment bank, said on Thursday that it had hired a senior banker from Bank of America Merrill Lynch to establish its transportation and infrastructure team.
I know it’s been a while (again). Here’s what I’m thinking about right now.