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TEAMSTERS STATEMENT OPPOSING PROPOSED UNION PACIFIC-NORFOLK SOUTHERN MERGER
The following is a statement from Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien; Mark Wallace, President of the Teamsters Rail Conference and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET); and Tony Cardwell, President of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED) on the potential merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern:
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