In 1919, it renamed itself the "Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes" to reflect its broadened jurisdiction.

In 1967, it changed names again to the "Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes", commonly known as BRAC.

Finally, in 1987, after absorbing members from a half dozen other unions that merged with BRAC, the organization adopted its current name.

The Railway Patrolmen's International Union represented rail police officers on a number of railroads.

The United Transport Services Employees union was founded in 1937 as the International Brotherhood of Red Caps, representing baggage handlers at railroad stations.

Founded in 1925 by A. Philip Randolph, the Porters organized for twelve years—largely in secret and in the hostile racial climate of those years—before winning a collective bargaining agreement with the anti-union Pullman Company.

BSCP members, including Edgar Nixon, played a significant role in the Civil Rights Movement in the decades that followed.

[1] This act provided an increase in wage of $0.05 an hour, and restored pay rates on Canadian railroads, among other favorable changes.

[4] The official site of the TCU claims that it all began when seven carmen met at a standing coach at a shop track in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on October 27, 1888, to form the first lodge in the brotherhood.

The early name of the organization was called the Brotherhood of Railway Car Repairers of North America.

In the By-Laws of the Division, section six of the preamble states,"... [we unite] to shorten the hours of labor as economic developments and progress will warrant.