July 15, 2022 | CEO Pay, Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2019, 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,...
May 6, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2019, News, STB, Unions
MAY 6, 2022 — While waiting for a response to our recent request to the National Mediation Board that a proffer of arbitration be issued by the Board to move our contract dispute to the next level, CBC unions participated in two additional days of mediated bargaining...
April 25, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, Disaster Relief Not Active, National Negotiations 2019, News
The Coordinated Bargaining Coalition released the following statement on April 25, 2022: On January 24, 2022, after more than two years of bargaining with the major U.S. Class I railroads, the 10 Rail Unions bargaining as part of the Coordinated Bargaining Coalition...
April 21, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, CSX, Headlines, SMART-TD
(Source: Railway Age, April 20, 2022) NEW YORK — CSX on April 19 reached what it’s calling a “tentative agreement” with the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, Transportation Division (SMART-TD) to provide SMART-TD Trainmen and Yardmasters with “monthly...
April 14, 2022 | BNSF, Contract Negotiations, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, April 14 — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has reached a tentative on-property agreement with Montana Rail Link (MRL), National President Dennis R. Pierce announced today. Ballots are being mailed on April 15 to active...
April 12, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines, National Mediation Board, National Negotiations 2019, Unions
(Source: Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division press release, April 11, 2022) SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — At this time, the National Mediation Board (NMB) has denied the BMWED/SMART-MD Coalition’s request for a proffer of arbitration. On Friday, April 8, 2022,...
