CLEVELAND, May 27 — BLET National President Don Hahs issued the following statement today.
“We are aware of the United Transportation Union’s intent to yet again petition the National Mediation Board for a single-craft representation election at the Union Pacific Railroad.
“BLET members should rest assured that we have notified our legal counsel in Washington, D.C., of the UTU’s action and plan to take appropriate steps to defend our organization. To the best of our knowledge, nothing has changed in the railroad industry since the UTU tried unsuccessfully to raid BLE by forcing a single craft representation election on the Kansas City Southern Railway in 2002.
“We are confident that we will prevail in this matter, as we did on the Union Pacific on February 29, 2000, and the Kansas City Southern on August 14, 2002.”