It is with great sadness that we must inform our members that retired CSX member Phil Houle has unexpectedly passed… Read More »ATDA Brother Phil Houle Will Be Deeply Missed

ATDA Trustee and BNSF System Committee General Chairman David Ursini has been selected by President Ed Dowell to serve as part of the ATDA’s… Read More »ATDA Trustee and BNSF General Chairman David Ursini joins ATDA National Staff

October 31, 2023 – Today, ATDA and the other fraternal organizations of the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department – Rail Labor… Read More »Rail Labor Unions Ask House Members To Vote Against Transportation Appropriations (THUD) Bill

     New ATDA President Ed Dowell and other Rail Labor leaders have just concluded a meeting with the National Carrier’s… Read More »Breaking News: Monthly Health and Welfare Cost-Share Will Not Increase in 2024

    In the ATDA’s continuing effort to advocate for its members, President Dowell recently met with Federal Railroad Administration Administrator… Read More »President Dowell and FRA Administrator Bose Discuss Rail Safety

     6-Term ATDA President Leo McCann, who first took the office in 1999, announced his retirement at the Organization’s recent… Read More »ATDA bids farewell to outgoing President Leo McCann

The American Train Dispatchers Association is proud to announce that the Delegates of the 34th General Assembly elected Ed Dowell… Read More »ATDA Elects New President and Other National Officers

The position of the American Train Dispatchers Association in particular, and Rail Labor in general, is that therequirements of these… Read More »Rail Labor Comments on CP Extraterritorial Dispatching Waiver

The BRC is looking to hire a Train Dispatcher. See the job description. If interested, submit a resume to ckerney@beltrailway.com.… Read More »Now Hiring! Belt Railway Company of Chicago

Washington, D.C. – The Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO today released the following statement on behalf of rail unions… Read More »RAIL LABOR WILL NOT REST UNTIL THE FREIGHT RAIL INDUSTRY IS FIXED AND RAIL WORKERS ARE TREATED FAIRLY

Tuesday October 4, 2022, The American Train Dispatchers Association’s members on Belt Railway of Chicago, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Conrail,… Read More »ATDA MEMBERS RATIFY NATIONAL MEDIATION AGREEMENT

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After almost three (3) years of long, contentious, and unproductive negotiations with the railroads, the ATDA reached a tentative National… Read More »ATDA REACHES TENTATIVE NATIONAL AGREEMENT

ATDA members covered under the National Agreement were issued ballots to vote for or against a strike if a settlement… Read More »ATDA Members Overwhelmingly Vote To Strike

Today, July 24, 2022, the United Rail Unions, who are bargaining as part of the Coordinated Bargaining Coalition and the… Read More »United Rail Unions Release Statement Upon Convening PEB 250

Washington, D.C. – On July 15, 2022, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. established Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) No. 250, effective… Read More »MEMBERS APPOINTED TO PEB NO. 250

WASHINGTON – Greg Regan, President of the Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO, released the following statement in response to… Read More »RAIL LABOR WELCOMES BIDEN’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF EMERGENCY BOARD

The Rail Unions who are bargaining as part of the Coordinated Bargaining Coalition and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way/SMART… Read More »The United Rail Unions issue the following statement July 15, 2022