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Little do people know that this administration has tried to avert total disaster amid a rail strike set to effect Friday at midnight. Thirty percent of the nation’s freight would be shuttered, and the cost per day to the US economy will be around $2 billion. Most passenger and commuter rail services will also cease operating. Ten of the twelve major railway unions have agreed to the new agreements, though the two largest, which represent engineers and conductors, has not signed off. They still have lingering questions about sick leave and penalties for missing work. Thus far, these two are...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United Transportation Union on Tuesday endorsed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president, the first national union endorsement of the 2008 campaign. "The UTU has a long history of picking winners early. Hillary will be a president that America's working families can count on. Time and again, as a United States senator, she has stood with us," UTU President Paul Thompson said in a statement. Clinton is leading in national polls for the Democratic nomination. She said that she was honored to get the endorsement. "America's workers have been invisible to this administration,...

HOUSTON -- A former official for a Cleveland-based union has pleaded guilty to charges that he took cash payments and other things of value from attorneys doing business with the union, U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby said. Charles Little, 69, of Leander, Texas, could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison and fined $250,000 when he is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sim Lake on April 9. In addition, the former international president of the United Transportation Union will forfeit $100,000, which the government says he received though illegal activity. Little and three others were indicted by a grand...