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  • Rail unions join forces to end RUIA sequestration

    INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, June 12 — All U.S. railroad labor unions have united in a campaign to overturn the unfair sequestration of Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (RUIA) benefits, which unjustly reduces the unemployment and sickness benefits of railroad workers. The unions are represented by the Teamsters Rail Conference and the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department (TTD).

    On June 11, the unions contacted Ohio Senators Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown and requested that they jointly co-sponsor language consistent with the HEROES Act (H.R. 6800) that would eliminate sequestration. Specifically, the unions are asking the Senators to rescind the sequestration of RUIA benefits by amending the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to include RUIA among the other various programs that are not subject to sequestration. Senator Portman is chairman of the Senate subcommittee where a decision on sequestration will be made.

    According to Teamsters Rail Conference President Dennis R. Pierce and TTD President Larry Willis: “Unlike the average U.S. worker, railroad employees do not receive unemployment benefits through state-administered unemployment insurance programs. Instead, unemployed railroaders receive these benefits through the RUIA program, which is administered by the United States Railroad Retirement Board (RRB). As a result of the Budget Control Act of 2011, RUIA are subject to sequestration. No state unemployment insurance benefits in the country are subject to this unfair treatment.”
    https://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/newsflash.asp?id=12365
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