February 8, 2023 | Contract Negotiations, CP-KCS Merger, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, February 8 — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has reached a tentative implementing agreement with the Kansas City Southern (KCS) and Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern (DM&E) Railroads. Ballots were mailed earlier today,...
February 7, 2023 | Contract Negotiations, News, Short Line
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, February 7 — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has reached a tentative contract agreement with the Union Railroad in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ballots were mailed last week to active members of the BLET employed by the...
January 13, 2023 | Contract Negotiations, News, Short Line
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, January 13 — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has reached tentative contract agreements with two short line railroads: the South Buffalo Railway Company (SBRR) and the Illinois Railway (IR). BLET members on these roads...
November 21, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, News
Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen vote to ratify national rail agreement with the nation’s Class I railroads; operating craft (Train & Engine service) members of the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet...
September 19, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines, National Negotiations 2019
(Source: Reuters, September 16, 2022) Union rail workers in the United States scored a potential key victory in their fight for improved pay and working conditions on Thursday in what could be a model for other unions. While not directly applicable to ongoing...
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
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...
