December 11, 2025 | Contract Agreement, News, Top News
BLET locomotive engineers who operate regional rail trains for SEPTA have ratified a new one-year contract with the transit agency. Ballots were counted on December 11. The new agreement builds upon gains achieved in the previous round of negotiations and provides a...
December 11, 2025 | Contract Agreement, News, Top News
BLET has ratified a new five-year agreement with the CPKC for locomotive engineers who work on the CPKC Soo Line territory. Ballots were tabulated on December 11. The deal provides general wage increases of 17.5 percent (18.8 percent compounded) over the life of the...
November 20, 2025 | Contract Agreement, News, Top News
On November 11, BLET members ratified a new five-year agreement with the Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad (WNYP), governing rates of pay, benefits, and work rules. The agreement runs through 2030 and provides for a guaranteed 40-hour work week, a signing...
October 10, 2025 | Contract Agreement, News, Top News
BLET members today ratified a new contract with Metra that provides a 3.5 percent general wage increase. Members voted 60-1 in favor of ratification. The agreement covers BLET members employed by Metra who operate on the Metra-UP Lines and are represented by the Union...
October 3, 2025 | Contract Agreement, News, Top News, UP
BLET members today ratified a new on-property agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad, which covers rates of pay, work rules, and health & welfare benefits for nearly 6,000 members employed at UP. Members voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratification, with 2,467...
August 23, 2025 | Contract Agreement, News, Top News
In a unanimous vote (22-0), members of the BLET ratified their first contract with the Arizona Eastern Railway (AZER). The previously non-union workers voted to join the BLET in June of 2024. The new five-year agreement establishes rights that BLET members working at...
August 13, 2025 | Contract Agreement, News, Top News
BLET members on August 6 ratified a new two-year agreement with the New York & Atlantic Railway (NY&A). The new contract extension provides a $1.00 per hour increase to all pay grades effective June 1, 2025, followed by two general wage increases totaling...
August 8, 2025 | Contract Agreement, News, Top News, UP
BLET members today ratified an agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad that will provide a one-time general wage increase of 3% to approximately 6,000 BLET members employed at UP. The interim raise will go into effect on September 1, 2025. The interim raise is...
July 6, 2025 | Contract Agreement, News, Top News
BLET members on June 26 ratified a new five-year agreement with the Terminal Railway-Alabama State Docks (TRASD). The BLET represents 14 members at the railroad, and the vote was 10-2 in favor of the new deal. The contract provides retroactive pay dating to 2023 as...
June 12, 2025 | Contract Agreement, News, Top News
BLET members today ratified a new five-year contract with Transit America Services, Inc., (TASI). The agreement covers 68 locomotive engineers who operate passenger trains at Caltrain. Ballots were counted this afternoon. Eighty-four percent of members cast ballots,...
