March 7, 2022 | News, STB
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, March 7 — BLET National President Dennis R. Pierce will testify tomorrow, March 8, before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials at a hearing titled “Stakeholder Views on Surface...
March 7, 2022 | AFL-CIO, DOT, News, PSR, SMART-TD, TTD
CLEVELAND, Ohio (March 7, 2022) — In conjunction with the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), the SMART Transportation Division (SMART-TD) and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) urge all members to engage in a petition drive to...
March 7, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, Unions
(Source: Railway Age, March 1, 2022) NEW YORK — The BMWED/SMART-Mechanical Division bargaining coalition late last month petitioned the National Mediation Board (NMB) for a proffer of arbitration, requesting to be released from further mediation sessions with the...
March 7, 2022 | BNSF, CN, CP-KCS Merger, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB, UP
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 3, 2022) BNSF Railway Co., CN, CSX, Norfolk Southern Railway and Union Pacific Railroad on Monday filed their “comments and request for conditions” with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) on the proposed merger...
March 7, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Suburban Chicagoland, March 4, 2022) CHICAGO — U.S. Representative Marie Newman (IL-03) on Friday March 4, 2022 led Congress members Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04), Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) and Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) in a letter urging BNSF Railway Company...
