
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 25, 1993                   TAG: 9308250060
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Knight-Ridder/Tribune
DATELINE: PHILADELPHIA                                LENGTH: Short

JUDGE BLOCKS AMTRAK STRIKE

A federal judge Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order preventing a strike by Amtrak conductors that had threatened to disrupt rail service nationwide.

U.S. District Judge Stanley Harris of Washington granted Amtrak's request for the order, keeping 2,350 members of the United Transportation Union on the job.

The union had planned to stage the walkout at 12:01 a.m. today over the issue of whether the national passenger railroad should use UTU members to move trains around a Los Angeles rail yard. Amtrak said the work is now performed by a single employee.

A strike could have halted most service on Amtrak's busy Northeast Corridor line that serves Philadelphia, New York and Washington. Long-distance trains full of vacationers also could have been disrupted.

by CNB