This webpage provides links to a variety of important documents, agreements and protective conditions, as well as a link to a searchable database of thousands of arbitration awards affecting the various crafts represented by the UTU.
Many of the items found here are in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). It is necessary to have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to open and view these items. If you do not have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer, you can obtain it free of charge at www.adobe.com.
The 2011 National Railroad Agreement can be found here.
| Award SummaryIindex | Award Search by Text | Important Documents | Employee Protective Conditions |
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The Award Summary Index contains current precedent decisions, as well as past decisions, and allows you to search by the award subject. When you find a pertinent award, you will be able to find the full text in the award database for downloading and printing.
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Downloading these instructions may take some time depending on your Internet connection. However, once downloaded, the indexed instructions will be stored on your computer for easy reference. |
Click below to view important documents such as the UTU Constitution, rates of pay, the Railway Labor Act and rail national agreements in .pdf format. You may also search railroad national agreements by text by clicking on the Search link. 2011 National Railroad Agreement Aug. 16, 1968 UTU Unification Agreement Rail National Agreements (1921-1955) |
Over the years, a number of labor protective conditions for employees adversely affected as a result of mergers, closures and other events have been either agreed to, legislated or imposed by the Interstate Commerce Commission (now Surface Transportation Board). To view the conditions affecting rail employees, click below. |








