Federal judge rules that union workers from one of the country's largest freight companies must resolve a dispute with the company over a new attendance policy through arbitration, effectively blocking them from striking.
U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman of the Northern Texas District ruled in favor of BNSF Railway, which said in court papers that a strike would deprive shippers of transportation, hurt revenue, threaten the safety of the general public, force other employees out of work and cause immediate and substantial schedule disruptions.
The decision means the company and members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers will head to mediation over a new attendance policy set to go into effect Feb. 1. About 17,000 workers — more than half of the 30,000 employees — had threatened to stop working over the policy dispute, which would have disrupted the transportation of goods and commodities across the U.S.
Freight workers, in many cases, don’t have assigned days off and are typically on call 24 hours a day. The current attendance policy allows union members to have seven days off per month. The new policy, a points-based system, penalizes employees for taking days off, the unions say.
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