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TRO Ends Strike Against Wheeling & Lake Erie
CLEVELAND -- Within hours of a strike that began Friday morning by locomotive engineers and trainmen against the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway (READ STORY), a federal judge in Akron issued a temporary restraining order that ended the walkout. The workers are represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.
The strike was triggered by WLE’s use of supervisors to perform the work of the engineers and the trainmen, the union said.
According to court documents filed by the railroad, which normally operates an average of 45-50 trains per day, the walkout stopped virtually all train activity.
Following an emergency hearing, U.S. Judge John R. Adams ordered the strikers to return to work, and conditioned the TRO “on WLE’s agreement not to use supervisors or other management employees in place of engineers or conductors in the operation of its trains.”
The TRO will remain in effect until a hearing can be held on the railroad’s request for a longer-term injunction.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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