The Short Line Safety Institute (SLSI) has hired John Walsh as Director of Hazardous Materials Programs. Walsh’s 30-year career includes experience in public safety, security, emergency management, ...

This is Marty Walsh’s make-or-break moment. The Labor secretary is working with President Biden to broker an agreement between rail companies and worker unions, in hopes of averting a strike. Hanging ...

After brokering a 20-hour negotiating session between freight rail companies and employee unions that ultimately avoided a strike, Labor Secretary Martin J. Walsh said Thursday that he knew “this had ...

WASHINGTON (WJLA) — Railroad unions and the U.S. Labor Department reached a tentative agreement to avoid a national strike, the White House announced Thursday morning U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh ...

U.S. Labor Secretary Martin J. Walsh, who in September led an all-night bargaining session between three rail unions and the National Carriers Conference Committee to avert a nationwide work stoppage, ...

Railroad strike averted — but it’s still a bumpy ride for President Biden, who calls himself “Union Joe” and promised to be “the most pro-union president leading the most pro-union administration in ...

Their specific requests varied, but the roughly half-dozen mayors and state lawmakers who addressed the MBTA's oversight board Monday all echoed a common theme: that expanding service and connectivity ...

A tentative agreement struck between railroad companies and workers earlier this month was “a good result,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said Wednesday, just weeks after federal officials managed to ...

Against a backdrop of construction crews ripping up Woodward Avenue, a who's who of Detroit and Michigan leaders and a White House cabinet member gathered Monday to push the $140-million M-1 Rail ...

U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh said Monday that communities should see funding from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill hit the streets in mid 2022 and underscored the importance of ...