January 28, 2025 | Contract Negotiations, News, Top News
The BLET has rejected a non-binding decision announced last week by Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) No. 252, assigned to the long-running dispute between BLET and New Jersey Transit (NJT). Rejection of the PEB’s recommendation triggers a 60-day cooling off period,...
January 22, 2025 | Contract Negotiations, News, Short Line, Top News
Less than a month after securing an organizing win at the Utah Central Railway, the BLET hit the ground running with its newest members. BLET National Vice President James Logan Jr., who now leads the BLET’s Short Line Department, traveled to Utah to help the nation’s...
January 22, 2025 | Commuter Rail, Contract Negotiations, Headlines
(Source: NorthJersey.com, January 22, 2025) Kris Kolluri, the new head of NJ Transit, is imploring the union that represents locomotive engineers to come to the table before a possible strike in March. In a statement released yesterday, Eddie Hall, national president...
January 21, 2025 | Contract Negotiations, News, Top News
NEWARK, N.J., January 21 — A non-binding decision announced this week by Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) 252, assigned to the dispute between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and New Jersey Transit (NJT), sets the clock ticking for...
January 21, 2025 | Commuter Rail, Contract Negotiations, Headlines
(Source: NorthJersey.com, January 21, 2025) A presidential emergency board has sided with NJ Transit for the second time over contract negotiations between the railroad agency and the locomotive engineers’ union. “Trains don’t move without engineers,” said Tom...
January 9, 2025 | Commuter Rail, Contract Negotiations, Headlines
(Source: NJ.com, December 18, 2025) A key date for commuters to be concerned about is March 21, 2025, when a 120-day cooling off period ends, which under the federal Railway Labor Act gives the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen the right to strike or NJ...
December 27, 2024 | Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2024, News, Top News
In accordance with Section 6 of the Railway Labor Act, the BLET and the rail carriers exchanged notices last month, and national negotiations with the Class I carriers and other railroads are now in progress. The BLET National Wage Team aims to build on the momentum...
November 26, 2024 | Contract Negotiations, News, Top News
On Thursday, November 21, President Biden appointed a second Presidential Emergency Board — PEB No. 252 — to investigate the ongoing years-long collective bargaining dispute between the BLET and New Jersey Transit (NJT). The report of PEB 251, appointed in July, was...
November 20, 2024 | Contract Negotiations, News, Top News
To better understand how rail labor and management reach agreements on rates of pay and work rules, the BLET has produced a series of briefs, Understanding collective bargaining under the Railway Labor Act, explaining how the Railway Labor Act of 1926 works. This...
November 15, 2024 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines, National Negotiations 2024
(Source: Associated Press, November 13, 2024) The flurry of contract agreements announced early this fall — including two more Wednesday — offer evidence that major railroads and their unions are working to avoid the standoffs that led them to a brink of a national...
