Ludlow, Colorado, 1914: eleven thousand mine workers had been on strike for seven months against John D. Rockefeller’s ...

Funds that were liquidated to pay striking workers were not quickly re-invested into stocks as they should have been, ...

The first Transcontinental Railroad was finished officially in 1869, and it connected the western and eastern United States. WPIX New York City, NY. Families remember Chinese immigrant railroad ...

Transportation across North America with reached a new level in 1862.It was the year when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act into law.Tha ...

The Central Pacific Railroad began laying tracks in 1863. Because of a labor shortage — the white labor pool in California was scarce and unreliable — the company turned to Chinese immigrants.Around ...

By the 1920s, over 20,000 Black Americans were employed as Pullman porters and other train personnel, making up the largest category of Black labor in the United States.

Rail workers from all over the Midwest gathered outside BNSF Railway's headquarters to protest for worker safety and pay concerns. Railroad workers rally in Lincoln demanding a new fair contract ...

Last Wednesday, a fellow rail worker was gravely injured on the job and lost his life,” a Feb. 6 email from Railroad Workers United reads. “ Our brother Chris Wilson, who worked for Norfolk ...

Last fall, many union railroad workers in the United States did not have paid sick days. Now, more than sixty percent of them do, Reuters reports.It has been a process of slow, piecemeal wins over ...

Railroads and their workers play an essential role in the U.S. economy, shipping goods across the country. In 2022, railroad workers decided to strike because of poor working conditions. A strike ...

Railroad workers across the United States had their sick and unemployment benefits cut on Wednesday, in reductions that had been paused for more than two years as part of pandemic aid tied to the ...

It was in tandem with these organizations, RWU [Railroad Workers United] and some of those folks that were leading the fight on opposing that initial agreement to a terrible contract.