U.S. Department of Labor

Railroad retirement can be a bit confusing. The best resource I have found for explaining it can be found at http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/sspus/railroad.pdf You can also visit http://www.rrb.gov/ to explore anything you would like to know about railroad retirement. The other helpful sites for those of us going into Train Service are Union Related. There are two unions serving Train Service employees. The first is the United Transportation Union (UTU) and the other is the... Read Full Story

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CERTAIN PRO-BUSINESS ELEMENTS ON K STREET CAN ALWAYS BE EXPECTED TO ACT IN PROPAGANDA LOCKSTEP anytime Congress or state legislatures propose increases in the mininum wage companies pay to especially entry-level workers. The most common patsy thus deployed will be that which claims that every time the mininum wage is increased, companies are forced to let workers go just to keep costs down and maintain value for money--even if it means resorting to creative patsies which conceal the real... Read Full Story