Union Pacific attempts to scrap job contract
Union Pacific Railroad is suing the city of Palestine to scrap a 150-year-old contract that now guarantees the employment of dozens of local residents.
If the courts rule in Union Pacific's favor, it would threaten more than 60 jobs that pay an average of $65,000 a year. The local economy would take an annual hit of nearly $5 million.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, alleges the railroad's contract with Palestine should have been invalidated several times over the years, including in the 1970's, when the federal Surface Transportation Board became the nation's regulating authority; and in 1997, when Union Pacific merged with the Missouri-Pacific Railroad.
Railroads are federally regulated, railroad officials argued, and the local contract limits the company's options.
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