August 2, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Daily Kos, July 29, 2022) Supply chain problems could get much, much worse in September if 115,000 railroad workers go on strike. The workers have gone more than two years without a contract, dealing with one cut after another, including job cuts that have...
August 2, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines
(Source: Television station WQAD, July 30, 2022) GALESBURG, Ill. — More than a hundred people rallied Saturday, July 30 in Galesburg to protest the working conditions for freight train workers across the country. The workers and unions have been negotiating with rail...
July 20, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines, National Negotiations 2019
(Source: Television station KMTV, July 19, 2022) OMAHA, Neb. — All of the nation’s major railroad carriers, including Union Pacific and Burlington Northern-Santa Fe are currently in a heated labor negotiation with around a dozen unions representing the workers. It...
July 15, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2019, News, TTD
Editor’s Note: The following is a press release from Greg Regan, President of the Transportation Trades Department (TTD) regarding President Biden’s appointment of a Presidential Emergency Board to investigate the national rail contract dispute. RAIL...
July 15, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2019, News, Top News
The United Rail Unions issue the following statement July 15, 2022: The Rail Unions who are bargaining as part of the Coordinated Bargaining Coalition and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way/SMART Mechanical Coalition attended the Public Interest Hearings hosted by...
July 15, 2022 | CEO Pay, Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2019, News, Top News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, July 15 — On Tuesday, July 12, 2022, BLET National President Dennis R. Pierce traveled to Washington D.C. to represent the membership of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen at the Public Interest Hearings held by the National...
June 21, 2022 | 2-man Crews, Contract Negotiations, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Farmer, June 20, 2022) The contract talks involve approximately 140,000 railroad workers who are members of 13 rail unions. Workers are frustrated they have not received raises since 2019, and they want their pay to increase enough to offset...
May 20, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2019, News
CLEVELAND, Ohio (May 20, 2022) — The Coordinated Bargaining Coalition (CBC) Rail Labor Unions* are preparing for in-person mediation sessions before the National Mediation Board (NMB) in Washington D.C., May 24-26. The Unions hope this will help to settle their...
May 12, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, CP, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, May 12 — Ballots will be mailed on May 18 to eligible members regarding the BLET’s tentative on-property agreement with the Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern Railroad (DM&E), National President Dennis R. Pierce announced today. Online voting will...
May 6, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, News, Short Line
(BLET Editor’s Note: The following updates an earlier press release and contains corrections to paragraphs 4 and 5.) INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, May 6 — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has reached a tentative on-property agreement with the Dakota,...
