2 big rail unions oppose $85B Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger over safety and cost concerns

The proposed $85 billion merger of the Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads has lost the support of two unions that ...

Union Pacific, Norfork Southern deal faces fresh pushback from Teamsters union

The Teamsters union said on Wednesday it opposes the proposed merger between U.S. freight railroads Union Pacific and Norfolk ...

Two big rail unions oppose $85b Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger over safety and cost concerns

The unions’ decision they plan to announce Wednesday will make the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the ...

Fort Worth-based BNSF Railway’s fight against $85B merger: Are jobs on the line?

The two railroad giants could combine, forming the largest railroad merger in history. What does Fort Worth’s BNSF have to say about it?

Is Union Pacific’s proposed merger the best way to speed up deliveries?

By joining forces with Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific says it can reduce delays at Midwest interchanges, but critics say it ...

Nearly 30 years later, BNSF challenges the Union Pacific–Southern Pacific merger

The original conditions set with the merger granted BNSF certain rights, such as access to "2-to-1" customer locations where Union Pacific ( UNP) and Southern Pacific previously competed to preserve ...
MarketWatch

BNSF Railway Files Petition Requesting STB to Enforce, Review Union Pacific/Southern Pacific Merger Conditions From Three Decades Ago

BNSF Railway today announced the Class I railroad has filed a petition with the Surface Transportation Board (STB), requesting the immediate review and enforcement of conditions imposed during the ...
Chicago Tribune

Union Pacific says rail merger could unclog Chicago. Critics worry about costs and traffic tie-ups.

Union Pacific says the $85 billion merger would serve the public interest and win federal approval by unclogging Chicago, the cradle of American railroading and still its biggest and most notorious ...
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BNSF questions Union Pacific's compliance with Southern Pacific merger conditions

WASHINGTON - BNSF Railway has revived its efforts to serve a pair of quarries located on Union Pacific trackage in Texas and Arkansas. UP and Southern Pacific served the locations prior to UP's 1996 ...
AG Week

Federal board urged to look closely at proposed merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Railroad

Sugarbeet cooperatives American Crystal Sugar Co. and Minn-Dak Farmers Co-op are among members of the agricultural industry that are endorsing an effort by Sens. John Hoeven and Amy Klobuchar to take ...