About 140 locomotive engineers and conductors walked off the job at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 11, and set up picket lines against the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway, the Brewster-based regional railroad, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen told The Repository.
Picket lines went up at four or five locations in Ohio, including Canton at 2800 Gambrinus Ave. SW and Akron at 1907 E. Market St., Gary Best, the union’s first vice president, told The Repository.
Best told The Repository the dispute is over the same issue that sent the railway’s workers on strike in 2013: the use of managers instead of union conductors and engineers. That earlier dispute was settled in federal court and raised safety concerns about single-person crews, The Repository reported…