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The union represents roughly 125,000 active and retired railroad, bus and mass transit workers, and covers conductors, switchmen and ground crews among others.
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Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
19 Dec. 2025
But emergencies have long been the switchmen of lasting social change.
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Matthew Desmond,
The New York Review of Books,
28 Dec. 2023
The switchman he was initially accused of killing actually survived, Boyles said.
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Washington Post,
10 Jan. 2020
Weeks, a clerk at phone company Southern Bell, applied for an open job as a switchman.
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Bryce Covert,
Cosmopolitan,
9 Aug. 2017
Coach Williams’s longtime man Friday, Wayne Walden, a former academic counselor, played switchman, steering basketball players to these classes.
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Michael Powell,
New York Times,
31 Mar. 2017
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Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
19 Dec. 2025
But emergencies have long been the switchmen of lasting social change.
—
Matthew Desmond,
The New York Review of Books,
28 Dec. 2023
The switchman he was initially accused of killing actually survived, Boyles said.
—
Washington Post,
10 Jan. 2020
Weeks, a clerk at phone company Southern Bell, applied for an open job as a switchman.
—
Bryce Covert,
Cosmopolitan,
9 Aug. 2017
Coach Williams’s longtime man Friday, Wayne Walden, a former academic counselor, played switchman, steering basketball players to these classes.
—
Michael Powell,
New York Times,
31 Mar. 2017
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“Switchman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/switchman. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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switchman
noun
switch·man
-mən 
: one who attends a railroad switch
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