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Railroad News: 2-PERSON CREW RULE UPHELD

Independence, Ohio -- August 11, 2026 -- The International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, Transportation Division (SMART-TD) and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) scored a major victory for railroad safety today when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld FRA's federal two-person crew rule.

In a 2-1 decision, the three-judge panel rejected challenges brought by the Association of American Railroads (AAR), the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association, and six individual railroads seeking to overturn FRA's 2024 Crew Size Rule. The majority denied the railroads' petitions for review in their entirety.

The court record makes SMART-TD's role in the victory clear. The railroads and their trade associations challenged FRA, its administrator, and the U.S. Department of Transportation. SMART-TD was the only labor organization granted intervenor status, standing alongside the federal government to defend the rule.

Read: Complete SMART-TD Story

Read Court Decision: Court of Appeals Ruling

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Workers and Retirees vs. Milei: The Fight for a Shared Future

Class War and Market Predation

Contra la privatización: La clase obrera argentina en lucha

We must be clear: the assault on Argentine retirees is a direct attack on the entire working class. While the capitalist media distracts us with the president’s erratic social media outbursts, we recognize these as a smokescreen for the systemic dismantling of our social security. We refuse to be passive observers as the wealth we generated through decades of labor is handed over to private financiers and local oligarchs under the guise of austerity.

This is not a crisis of leadership—it is a brutal class war.

Our demand is non-negotiable: we must establish a new public, non-state, pay-as-you-go, and solidarity-based pension system. This structure must be managed and administered directly by those it serves: active and retired workers. We refuse any attempt at privatization or the further erosion of our dignity by a government that views the elderly as liabilities rather than the builders of our nation’s heritage. The struggle of the retirees is the struggle of every union member today.

International Solidarity Against Capital

The core issue is not the president’s personality, but the predatory capitalist agenda he enforces. As rival factions of the right-wing elite squabble over the spoils of the state, the working class continues to suffer. Whether it is the internal corruption of 'Freedom Advances' or the boardroom battles between industrial giants like Paolo Rocca and the Clarín Group, the outcome for us is always the same: austerity, layoffs, and the theft of our futures. We stand with those defending public education, healthcare, and science against a 'lion' who is nothing more than a puppet for global capital. No worker is left behind in this fight.

Argentina, May 18, 2026
NATIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF RETIREES' AND PENSIONERS' ORGANIZATIONS OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC