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EWS CLIPS October 5, 2012 Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters EWS CLIPS October 5, 2012 Randall Brassell, Director of Communications Telephone: 615-521-4097 (Fax) 615-824-2164 Email: [email protected] STB Orders Berkshire Hathaway to Divest Two Railroads Posted By The Journal of Commerce On October 1, 2012 @ 9:31 am In More News | No Comments Berkshire Hathaway must explain to the federal government how it will divest itself of two railroads, after the company revealed it owns two carriers other than BNSF Railway. Warren Buffett’s company isn’t allowed “to own or control multiple carriers” without the approval of the Surface Transportation Board, the railroad regulatory agency wrote to Berkshire Hathaway on Sept. 18. BNSF wrote the STB on Sept. 13 that it didn’t think that Berkshire Hathaway’s $43 billion purchase of the railroad [1] in 2010 would be subject to STB oversight because the parent company isn’t a rail carrier and it didn’t “believe it owned or controlled any rail carriers.” BNSF and Berkshire Hatwhaway “have recently become aware that two of Berkshire’s more than 75 operating business groups with nearly 2,000 subsidiaries do in fact have entities within their organization structure that own or control an interest in a total of two rail common carriers,” Roger Nober, BNSF executive vice president, law and secretary, wrote the STB. At the time of the purchase of BNSF, Berkshire owned about 90 percent of MidAmerican Energy Holding Company, which owns a majority stake in CBEC Railway, he wrote. The six-mile common carrier in Iowa mainly hauls coal to power plants. Berkshire also had a controlling interest in Marmon Group, which includes RailServe as one of its 150 business. The rail services company holds White City Terminal Union Railway, a short-line railroad in Oregon. “Berkshire recognizes that not only was its purchase of BNSF subject to STB jurisdiction, but when it purchased its initial 60 percent ownership stake in Marmon in 2008, then by extension its ownership and control over the WCTU was also a transaction that was likely subject to STB jurisdiction,” Nober wrote. The STB said it would determine whether further action would need after reviewing Berkshire’s plan [2] “to remedy its failure to comply with” the regulation. U.S. Transportation Deputy Secretary Porcari Announces $120 Million for Connecticut to Increase Train Service and Improve Travel Times Federal Government and Connecticut Partnering to Invest more than $365 Million on the ew Haven to Springfield Corridor MERIDEN, Conn. – U.S. Transportation Deputy Secretary John Porcari today announced that the state of Connecticut will receive $120 million in High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail program funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to complete construction on the Hartford segment of the New Haven to Springfield, Mass. passenger rail corridor. Once the project is complete in 2016, 11 additional round- trip trains will travel between Hartford and New Haven, for a total of 17 trains traveling the line, compared to six today. Deputy Secretary Porcari was joined in making the announcement by Governor Dannel Malloy, members of the Connecticut congressional delegation and other officials. “This investment will mean increased speeds, reduced delays and added capacity along the New Haven to Springfield corridor,” said Deputy Secretary Porcari. “It’s good news for rail travelers and for the regional economy, and it’s one more sign of President Obama’s support for rail projects in New England and across America.” Improvements to the corridor will reduce travel time between St. Albans Vt. and New Haven, Conn., by more than one hour. The project involves installing 10 miles of double track, upgrading a signal system on a portion of the line, and making improvements at 28 road crossings. Thirteen bridges and culverts will be repaired or replaced, and four Amtrak stations will receive new, high-level, Americans with Disabilities Act compliant platforms with overhead pedestrian walkways and newly expanded parking areas for rail customers. “No economy can grow faster than its transportation network allows,” said Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph C. Szabo. “These investments will bring new jobs, along with commercial and residential development, to Connecticut.” The improved corridor between Springfield and New Haven is part of an extensive plan developed by Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Amtrak to dramatically transform passenger rail service in New England over the next 20 years. The improved service will provide a convenient and reliable connection to the Northeast Corridor in New Haven, providing New England families and businesses with better access to New York City and Washington, D.C. Today’s announcement follows two additional High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail (HSIPR) grants totaling $70 million for the New Haven to Springfield line, awarded in 2011: http://www.fra.dot.gov/roa/press_releases/fp_FRA%2024-11.shtml . In total, the federal government has invested $191 million in the line. Collectively, the state and federal government are partnering to invest a total of $365 million, including $141.9 million from the State of Connecticut, along the line to reduce trip times, improve reliability, add capacity, improve safety, and renovate four Amtrak stations in Wallingford, Meriden, Berlin, and Hartford. The state’s long-term vision for the New Haven to Springfield line calls for operating up to 25 daily round ‐trips and train speeds are expected to increase from 79 mph to 90 mph. Since 2009, the Obama Administration has awarded over $3.7 billion to passenger rail projects across the Northeast region stretching from Maine to Washington, D.C. Nationwide, the Obama Administration has invested over $12 billion in passenger rail. Federal funding for today’s grant was awarded through FY 2010 appropriations under the Federal Railroad Administration’s High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail program. Scabs can't replace good union workers By Bill Press, Tribune Media Services, Bill Press Posted 09/27/2012 at 2:30 pm EST Politics is a lot of things. But, as we learned this week, it's not everything. President Obama addressed the UN General Assembly. Both Obama and Mitt Romney spoke before the Clinton Global Initiative. But all America was talking about -- was football. No wonder. Football is America's national sport. And with professional officials locked out by NFL owners and rent-a-refs taking the field, this season started off a total disaster: a series of missed calls, bad calls, and dangerous calls that slowed play, confused fans and players, and put players at risk. As The Nation sports editor Dave Zirin observed, it couldn't have been any worse if owners had dressed Sacha Baron Cohen in black and white and put him in charge. Still, owners might have gotten away with it, turning the tough business of knowing the rules and making the calls over to a bunch of "replacement refs," most of whom had never worked anything more complicated than a junior college game, and some of whom were actually fired for incompetence by the Lingerie League. In fact, they did get away with it for four weeks. Until the farcical end to last week's Green Bay Packers v. Seattle Seahawks game. By now, we've all seen the tape countless times. With time running out, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson's Hail Mary pass came down in the end zone among a tangle of players. Seahawks receiver Golden Tate made a grab for it, after pushing another player out of the way, but the ball was clearly caught by Packers safety M.D. Jennings. At which point, two confused replacement refs arrived on the scene. Standing side by side, one immediately declared "Incomplete Pass," while the other signaled "Touchdown!" Ten minutes later, officials nevertheless awarded Tate the touchdown reception and the Seahawks won the game. When public outrage erupted the next day, the NFL put out a statement confirming the Seahawk's win, while declaring that officials should have charged Golden Tate with offensive pass interference -- which would, of course, have invalidated the touchdown and the Seahawks' win. Confused yet? Never has one football play generated so much outrage or unanimous condemnation. From all sides. From high and low. Walking into the White House the next morning, the nation's number one sports fan Barack Obama told reporters: "I've been saying for months we've gotta get our refs back." Former President Bill Clinton also piled on. As did, most surprisingly, anti-union Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker and Congressman Paul Ryan. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers led a posse of players who took to Twitter to blast NFL owners, himself tweeting: "The game is being tarnished by an NFL that obviously cares more about saving some money than having the integrity of the game diminished a little bit." With pressure like that, NFL owners had to act, and they did. They sat down with leaders of the NFL Referees Association and within 48 hours hammered out a deal. NFL owners were granted a "bench" of new recruits from which they could pick replacements for underperforming refs. And referees were allowed to maintain their defined benefit pensions, rather than switching to a 401K plan, for at least eight years. By the time you read this, the NFL lockout will be over and "real" refs will be back in charge, leaving many to ask: If this was so easy to resolve, why didn't it happen a lot sooner? The answer is easy: This dispute could have been resolved sooner, and would have been resolved sooner -- indeed, it would never have happened in the first place -- were it not for the arrogance and obstinacy of billionaire NFL owners, Mitt Romney's friends, who care only about the bottom line and don't give a fig about fans, players, or the integrity of the game itself.
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