Engineers and conductors of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway , members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen are on strike today. Picket lines have been set up at key locations beginning at noon, November 11 (today). Wheeling and Lake Erie are on one of the largest regional railroads in the nation, operates trains on 840 miles of track from Hagerston Maryland, across West Virginia and Pennsylvania, servicing Pittsburgh and cities in Northeast Ohio, terminating in Toledo.
Strike by 140 engineers and conductors was caused by the railroad’s insistence on using managers to work as conductors is a violation of labor contracts.