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UNITED RAIL UNIONS SUE TO BLOCK CARRIERS FROM MODIFYING HEALTHCARE
BENEFITS WITHOUT BARGAINING
Washington, DC, August 7 - On August 5, 2020, 12 rail unions whose
members and their families are covered by the NRC/UTU Plan and the
Railroad Employees National Health and Welfare Plan, filed suit against
the nation's Class I railroad carriers in the United States District
Court for the District of Columbia.

The suit asks the court to force the carriers to bargain in good faith
with the unions over mandatory subjects of bargaining. The involved
issues have been the subject of collective bargaining for decades and
are in fact part of the carriers' bargaining notices served on November
1, 2019 pursuant to Section 6 of the Railway Labor Act (RLA). At issue
are carrier attempts to restrict access to certain medications and to
forcibly reconfigure health care networks.

The unions are: the American Train Dispatchers Association; the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen; the Brotherhood of
Maintenance of Way Employes; the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen; the
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers; the
International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation
Workers, Mechanical Division; the International Association of Sheet
Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, Transportation Division;
the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers; the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; the National Conference of Fireman &
Oilers District, Local 32BJ, SEIU; the Transportation Communications
Union/IAM; and the Transport Workers Union.

The rail carriers are: BNSF Railway Company; Kansas City Southern
Railway Company; CSX Transportation; Grand Trunk Western Railroad
Company; Norfolk Southern Railway Company; Soo Line Railway Company;
and Union Pacific Railway Company. Also named in the suit is the
National Railway Labor Conference (NRLC), whose National Carriers'
Conference Committee (NCCC) is the designated bargaining agent of the
railroads.

The unions have asked the court to...

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