Unions call for Amtrak to restore full dining-car service

David Patch, Staff Writer, The Toledo Blade; May 31, 2018

A coalition of Amtrak employee unions has called on the passenger-train system to reinstate full dining-car service on the two routes that run through Toledo, the cancellation of which it says “threatens jobs and pensions from coast to coast” and already has annoyed passengers.

Veteran railroad employees who live on the East Coast “may be forced to move to Seattle or Chicago just to complete the career they started decades ago,” which in turn will have “ripple effects” on workers around the network, the Amtrak Service Workers Council said.

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