1976 Fact: UTU agreed to the elimination of one brakeman on branch lines and way freights in return for $10.75 for the remaining two train service employees.
1978 Fact: UTU agreed to trainmen preference for fireman positions.
1982 Fact: UTU agreed to arbitration on the elimination of cabooses.
1984 Fact: Arbitration 419 eliminated the caboose.
1985 Fact: UTU National Agreement, this was not a PEB or Arbitration Award. This was agreed upon.
Fact: UTU agreed to the elimination of firemen through attrition. The original language of this section would have eliminated firemen immediately. Only after the firemen voted the agreement down did the UTU International change the language to "attrition" these were dues paying members that UTU wanted to eliminate
Fact: UTU agreed to Road and yard incidental work.
Fact: UTU agreed to have a road crew deliver their road train anywhere in the terminal.
Fact: UTU agreed to one additional pick up or set out at either the initial, intermediate, or final terminal.
Fact: UTU agreed to additional customer service language. We have not realized the full extent of this section yet.
Fact: UTU agreed that engineers would now come from the ranks of train service employees. This is the start of the community of interest arguement UTU is now offering in the single craft NMB cases.
Fact: UTU agreed to substandard rate for engineer trainees
Fact: UTU agreed to the elimination of duplicate time payments.
Fact: UTU agreed to rate progressions for new hires, 75% entry rates.
Fact: UTU agreed to lower deadhead rate for new hires.
Fact: UTU agreed to eliminate ITD/FTD for new hires.
1988 Fact: UTU agreed to the elimination of one brakeman on all jobs in return for $10.75 per day to the conductor and a $50,000 buy out of excess trainmen.
1992 Fact: UTU agreed to the elimination of the last brakeman in return for $28.75 per day to the conductor. $100,000 buy out for excess trainmen and $15,000 bonus for trainmen who remained.
Fact: UTU agreed to the creation of Utility Man position in yard service only.
Fact: UTU agreed to one additional pick up or set out at either the initial, intermediate, or final terminal.
1996 Fact: UTU rank and file membership voted down the National Agreement and the UTU President takes the contract to arbitration and gets the identical agreement the membership voted down
Fact: UTU agreed to an engineer only agreement eliminating all conductors and trainmen postions on the QNS&LR in Canada leaving 49 conductors and trainmen jobless. This agreement permitted the QNS&LR to operate trains with either one or two engineers and provided that engineers would assume the duties performed by conductors and trainmen.
1999 Fact: AFL-CIO sanctions UTU for union raiding. In response UTU quits AFL-CIO.
2000 Fact: UTU tentative National Agreement embraces new technology, black box
Fact: UTU attempted a single craft vote on the UP but failed to convince the NMB that a single craft did exist on the UP.
Fact: UTU successfully destroys the crafts of engineer and conductor on the Tex Mex Railroad and creates a single craft.
Fact: UTU successfully destroys the crafts of engineer and conductor on the Terminal Railroad Association of Saint Louis and creates a single craft.
Fact: UTU successfully destroys the crafts of engineer and conductor on the Manufacturers Railway and creates a single craft.
Fact: UTU successfully destroys the crafts of engineer and conductor on the Paducah & Louisville Railroad and creates a single craft.
2001 Fact: Agreement with all class one railroads for the remote control on locomotives to be controlled by trainmen eliminating all yard engineers.
Fact:UTU circulated A cards on the KCS and petitioned the NMB for a single craft.
2002 Fact: UTU brags on their web site that they will get rid of 50 yard engineers on KCS. Through the trickle down affect, UTU represented trainmen will really be eliminated.
2003 Fact: UTU sought an A card election on the CP in Canada, it failed when the UTU was voted off of the property and 4,500 trainmen joined the ranks of the BLET.
2004 Fact: UTU DLC scandal breaks and former IP Charlie Little and Byron A. Boyd sent to prision.
Fact: New IP Paul Thompson is quoted as saying the real enemy of rail labor is not the carriers, but the truckers.
Fact: Due to a decline in membership, the UTU enters into an agreement with the NCCC to allow the UTU to collect "seniority maintenance fees" from trainmen who exercised their freedom of choice by joining the BLET.
2005 Fact: The UTU finds themselves painted in a corner over the carriers wishes for one man road crews.
In the immortal words of former IP and current RICO Felon Byron A. Boyd "Stay Tuned"