September 16, 2022 | Headlines, Hi-Viz, National Negotiations 2019, PSR
(Source: Slate, September 15, 2022) President Joe Biden has announced a tentative agreement to avert the disruption and the body blow it would have caused the economy and our supply chains. The deal isn’t final —workers will soon vote on it — but, nonetheless, it’s a...
September 16, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019
(Source: CNN, September 15, 2022) Unions and management reached a tentative deal early Thursday, averting a freight railroad strike that had threatened to cripple US supply chains and push prices higher for many goods. A verbal agreement between the two sides was...
September 16, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019
(Source: Yahoo Finance, September 15, 2022) On Thursday at 5:04 a.m. ET, President Joe Biden announced that a tentative deal was in place to avert a nationwide freight rail strike that could have wreaked economic havoc around the nation. “This contract negotiation has...
September 16, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, PSR
(Source: National Public Radio, September 15, 2022) Like so many essential workers in the pandemic, the engineers and conductors who operate the nation’s freight trains have had it. Full story: www.npr.org
September 16, 2022 | Headlines, Hi-Viz, National Negotiations 2019, PSR
(Source: New York Times, September 15, 2022) To defuse a labor dispute that brought the nation to the brink of a potentially catastrophic railroad strike, negotiators had to resolve a key issue: schedules that workers say were punishing, upending their personal lives...
September 16, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019
(Source: Freight Waves, September 15, 2022) The U.S. operations of the Class I railroads are working to resume operations “immediately” now that a tentative deal has been reached to avoid a strike by union members on Friday. Full story: Freight...
September 15, 2022 | National Negotiations 2019, News
For immediate release, September 15, 2022 Statement by Jeremy Ferguson, President, SMART Transportation Division and Dennis Pierce, President, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen on Tentative Agreement Reached Early This Morning Between Unions...
September 13, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019
(Source: CNBC, September 12, 2022) Two of the largest railroad unions in negotiations with railroad carriers have drawn a line in the sand: they are demanding more quality of life provisions are put into the contract, covering attendance policies, vacation and sick...
September 13, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019
(Source: CNBC, September 13, 2022) The top labor negotiator in talks to avert a railroad strike accused BNSF and Union Pacific of holding up progress. Specifically, Dennis Pierce, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, or BLET, said the...
September 13, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019
(Source: Freight Waves, September 11, 2022) Three more railroad unions have reached tentative agreements with U.S. freight railroads on a new labor contract, announced the National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC). The tentative agreements include: the...
