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From UTU website: <br /> <br />UTU strikes portions of BNSF <br />The United Transportation Union commenced a work stoppage against BNSF Railway Wednesday, April 27, at 2 pm Central Daylight Time. <br />The work stoppage will not affect any rail-passenger or commuter operations hosted or staffed by BNSF, and UTU members will continue to perform all passenger-related functions on BNSF and Amtrak. <br /> <br />The work stoppage affects only the former Burlington Northern (BN) Railroad portion of BNSF and not the former Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) portion of the carrier. BN and ATSF merged in 1995. <br /> <br />About 8,000 UTU-represented BNSF employees are on strike on the former BN portion of BNSF. <br /> <br />The UTU work stoppage is in response to BNSF's unilateral change to a UTU agreement. <br /> <br />The UTU simultaneously asked a federal district court in Minneapolis-St. Paul to order BNSF to return to the status quo under the agreement. <br /> <br />Section 3 of Article XIII of the UTU 1985 national agreement provides that engineers with train-service seniority can only use that seniority if they cannot hold an engineer's position. The BNSF violated the status quo under that agreement this month by permitting engineers, who could hold an engineer position, to remain in train service. <br /> <br />The reason the ATSF portion of the property is not being affected by the work stoppage is because in 2001, the UTU and BNSF signed an agreement as to the former ATSF portion of the property providing that junior engineers would be forced to vacant engineer positions if senior engineers wanted to remain in train service. BNSF is now doing the same thing on the BN portion of the property, but without a signed agreement with the UTU, and that violates the status quo required to be maintained by the law. <br /> <br />April 27, 2005 <br />
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