Husband, father, son, brother. Proud to represent the hard-working, dedicated railroad workers throughout Illinois as SMART-TD State Director. #WIU Grad
Springfield, IL.
Joined September 2013
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A record turnout for @MW_Rail's 2024 annual meeting! Eighty commissioners, partners & allies are at Union Depot in St. Paul, #Minnesota, for two days of discussion & presentations on improving #Midwestern #passengerrail.
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#RailSafetyWeek: The FRA remains committed to rail safety. We have finalized rulemakings, additionally, we also issued safety advisories and bulletins. 🧵
ALT TEXT-Raising Rail Safety Standards. Issued long-awaited final rule establishing minimum safety requirements for the size of train crews . Photo-locomotive on train tracks. FRA LOGO Rail Safety Week
Do yourself a favor and check out this page my daughter created to document my granddaughters journey with Jacobsen Syndrome, it’ll brighten your day! ❤️#jacobsensyndrome
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FRA wants to hear from citizens about the impacts of blocked crossings & we continue to work with railroads, communities, & others to find solutions. We encourage citizens to report incidents through the FRA Public Blocked Crossing portal. fra.dot.gov/blockedcrossings…
ALT View of train blocking crossing from inside of the car.
Yet more glaring examples of how RR’s prioritize profits above all else. Rail workers know this all too well and are mercilessly & unethically intimidated to not report personal injuries. Don’t believe RR’s when they say safety first, it’s simply not true.
Freight railroad companies say they are among America's safest employers.
But ProPublica found a culture that blames workers when they get hurt and motivates supervisors to go to extreme, sometimes dangerous, lengths to keep injuries off the books. propublica.org/article/railr…
Thanks @senvillivalam & @RepKamBuckner for a great first step to address violence on transit and for helping to protect workers! masstransitmag.com/safety-se…
“The culture of management is that we are going to cover ourselves and cover the railroad and make sure that it doesn’t look bad in the public eye,” Cole said. “And if we got to bury one of our employees, or somebody else, we’re going to do that.” #PSR
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Robert W Guy III retweeted
Get on board, Illinois.
Thanks to the Biden Administration, the largest investment in passenger rail since the creation of Amtrak is heading to states like ours to support future rail expansion and improve Chicago’s Union Station.
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John Oliver uses his unique storytelling ability to highlight the very real dangers of PSR #safety4th youtu.be/AJ2keSJzYyY?si=jJPU… via @YouTube @capitolfax
These corporate actions are what led to the E. Palestine disaster earlier this year….and they still happen every day in our industry. Workers are threatened with their jobs to ignore SERIOUS safety defects. @ILAFLCIO propublica.org/article/union…
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The Midwest agrees — funding the Chicago Hub Improvement Project modernizes Amtrak for Illinoisans and 30M riders across the nation who depend on it.
Thank you to our congressional delegation for leading the advocacy of federal funding for this project. nbcchicago.com/news/local/ch…
Robert W Guy III retweeted
Illinois #MIPRC Commissioner @Hanson4Illinois speaks during @MW_Rail's 2023 Annual Meeting in Normal, as fellow Commissioner @RobertWGuy listens. Commissioners, partners & allies spent almost 3 days discussing how to further develop the #Midwest's regional #passengerrail network.
“The FRA said it found defects on nearly 73% of the UP locomotives it inspected”
But I thought safety was priority #1 🤔
Nope, priority #1 is feeding elected officials a line of 💩 so they don’t pass common sense rail safety legislation @capitolfax
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This is yet another glaring example of rail carriers caring only about protecting profits, not about public or employee safety. For rail workers this is not surprising in the least but it’s common practice in todays PSR world. @capitolfax kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/…
This very topic was brought up in 2019 during an Illinois House Committee meeting considering train crew size legislation. Rail carriers were simply asked “What if technology fails?” They couldn’t answer the question then…and still can’t today. smart-union.org/ns-outage/
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Some officials aren’t sure Norfolk Southern will follow through on long-term solutions.
“This isn’t the first time we’ve had conversations like this, and two years from now, where are we going to be?” the Hammond schools superintendent said. propublica.org/article/how-n…
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Congratulations @smartunionworks Transportation Division President Jeremy Ferguson on being named to the Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory Council.
We applaud the Surface Transportation Board for recognizing the value of rail labor's perspective. progressiverailroading.com/p…