March 2, 2023 | Health & Welfare, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, March 2 — For the first time in recent history, a new comprehensive resource guide outlining benefits under the Railroad National Health & Welfare Plan (GA-23000) is now available. The brochure is being made available through the work of the...
November 29, 2022 | Health & Welfare, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, November 29 — The lifetime maximum benefit for the Railroad Employees National Early Retirement Major Medical Benefit Plan (also known as ERMA or GA-46000) will increase from $182,700 to $188,000 on January 1, 2023. At the end of 2001, Labor and...
November 19, 2021 | Health & Welfare, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, November 19 — The lifetime maximum benefit for the Railroad Employees National Early Retirement Major Medical Benefit Plan (also known as ERMA or GA-46000) will increase from $175,700 to $182,700 on January 1, 2022. At the end of 2001, Labor and...
November 5, 2021 | Health & Welfare, News
BLET National President Dennis R. Pierce was reelected by acclamation as Chairman of the Cooperating Railway Labor Organizations (CRLO) during October 28’s CRLO business meeting. The CRLO is a group of 12 Rail Labor unions that sit together to oversee the collectively...
October 26, 2021 | Health & Welfare, News, Unions
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 25 — An arbitrator has rejected the railroad industry’s attempt to utilize a never-before-used contract clause imposed by Congress 30 years ago to reduce the healthcare networks available to over 250,000 railroad workers and family members on...
October 1, 2021 | Health & Welfare, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, October 1 — From now until midnight on October 31, 2021, you can enroll or change your Medical or Health Flexible Spending Account (FSA) benefit selections for the 2022 benefit year. Members must enroll in the Health FSA every year — FSA enrollment...
September 9, 2021 | Health & Welfare, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, September 8 — The Benefits of Belonging to the BLET include numerous legal and contractual advantages, as well as certain benefits available only to members of our Brotherhood and their families. Among these is the BLET Critical Illness (CI) and...
September 9, 2021 | Health & Welfare, News
(BLET Editor’s Note: The following press release is from the Your Track to Health website (https://www.yourtracktohealth.com).) INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, September 7 — The following health and wellness resources are available to members covered by The Railroad Employees...
February 19, 2014 | Headlines, Health & Welfare
(Source: Associated, February 17, 2014) ALBANY, N.Y. — New York transportation officials are setting up public hearings to discuss options for an idea that has been kicked around for years but has yet to leave the station: high-speed passenger rail service. Full...
December 17, 2013 | Headlines, Health & Welfare
(Source: Associated Press, December 13, 2013) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A state board gave approval Friday for the California High-Speed Rail Authority to start the process of seizing its first piece of property through eminent domain for a $68 billion bullet train. Full...
