BLET News
Monthly employee contributions under the National Health & Welfare Plan will decrease by 10.2% in 2025
Arizona: Governor signs BLET-backed transportation worker assault bill
2024 Election: BLET Legislative Board recommendations
Texas: Annual rail labor solidarity rally slated for October 15
Texas: BLET notches another short line organizing victory — third one in 2024
Members still have time to request replacement ballots in Metra-UP implementing agreement
Pearson reelected to third term as Colorado State Legislative Board Chairman
Help is available for BLET members who suffered damage or property loss from Hurricane Helene
Biden-Harris administration calls on CPKC, CN and CSXT to guarantee paid sick leave for all railroad workers
Buffalo: CSXT’s remote control trains kill and maim pedestrians
New England: Cadogan reelected State Legislative Board Chairman
BLET President Hall on hand as ATDA is inducted into DOL’s Century of Service Honor Roll
Georgia: New state law increases penalties for assault against railroad workers
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Rail Industry News
NJ Train regulation bill advances in state senate
(Source: Trains.com, October 2, 2024) A New Jersey state senate committee has approved a bill that would require two-person crews for freight trains and set a maximum length of 8,500 feet for “dangerous hazardous trains.” Full story: Trains.com
NTSB: Improper coupling, excessive in-train forces caused March 2023 NS derailment
(Source: Progressive Railroading, October 3, 2024) The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined the probable cause of a March 2023 train derailment of a Norfolk Southern Railway train in Alabama was the combination of the coupling together of two...
CSX’s former Clinchfield largely unrecognizable after historic flood
(Source: Trains.com, September 28, 2024) CSX Transportation’s ex-Clinchfield Railroad mainline has seen devastating impacts from Hurricane Helene’s once-in-a-generation flood. It is still too early to determine the full extent of damages, but photos along the famed...
Q&A: RRB financial reports
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, September 4, 2024) As required by law, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) submits annual financial reports and triennial actuarial valuations to Congress on the financial condition of the railroad retirement system,...
UP explains absence from early contract agreements with organized labor
(Source: Trains.com, September 19, 2024) As BNSF Railway, CSX, and Norfolk Southern continue to sign tentative contract agreements with their labor unions well in advance of the start of national negotiations, one U.S. Class I railroad has been conspicuously absent:...
NTSB identifies probable cause of close-clearance death of CSX conductor trainee
(Source: Trains.com, September 24, 2024) The probable cause of a fatal accident involving a conductor trainee in CSX’s yard in Cumberland, Md., last summer was the train’s movement through an unidentified and unmitigated close clearance location, the National...
STB urges BNSF and UP to be prepared for West Coast container surge
(Source: Trains.com, September 25, 2024) With a dockworkers strike looming at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, Surface Transportation Board Chairman Robert E. Primus has asked BNSF Railway and Union Pacific to provide regulators with information on how they will...
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