What “New York Dock” Is “New York Dock” refers to federally imposed employee‑protective conditions that automatically apply when the Surface Transportation Board (STB) approves a railroad merger, acquisition, consolidation, or similar transaction. The name comes from the ICC decision New York Dock Railway—Control—Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (360 I.C.C. 60 (1979)). These protections bind the carrier…
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The deadline for President Joe Biden to intervene and keep 115,000 railroad workers from going on strike and disrupting deliveries of cars, crops, containers of imported goods, and countless other products and raw materials is looming. July 18th at 12:01 am to be exact. Biden is widely expected to name a board of arbitrators to…
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Written by David Schanoes, Contributing Editor July 27, 2020 Nothing burnishes an image like death. Ask Richard Nixon, not that you can, and that’s part of the beauty of the whole process. Once he or she is effectively and permanently silenced, memory can go to work blurring those hard edges, airbrushing away those unfortunate blemishes on what some…
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