September 2, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, Teamsters
(Source: BMWED press release, September 1, 2022) BMWED-IBT National Division officers, General Chairpersons, and staff met in Washington, D.C. this week with the National Carriers Conference Committee for three days of continued bargaining in the wake of the...
September 2, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019
(Source: Brotherhood of Railroad Signalment press release, August 29, 2022) FRONT ROYAL, Va. — The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, which represents more than 6,500 members working on the nation’s freight railroads in national collective bargaining, issued the...
August 31, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, PSR
(Source: Wired, August 30, 2022) Federal regulators and the White House have been scrambling to prevent poor service and a possible strike from jamming up a vital but often overlooked network. Full story: www.wired.com
August 27, 2022 | National Negotiations 2019, News, SMART-TD
The following is a joint statement from BLET President Dennis Pierce and SMART-TD President Jeremy Ferguson: CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 27 — On Monday, August 22, the SMART TD and BLET, along with the other remaining United Rail Unions, met with the Rail Carriers via...
August 17, 2022 | National Negotiations 2019, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, August 17 — The recommendations of Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) No. 250 were published on Tuesday, August 16. Officers of the BLET National Division, along with legal counsel and the BLET Wage Team, are continuing to analyze the report and...
August 16, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019
(Source: Railway Age column by David Nahass, August 15, 2022) The railroads are most certainly watching midterm elections that will alter current congressional majorities, and they have their eye focused on the U.S. Supreme Court. It is virtually impossible to believe...
August 12, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019
(Source: Nebraska Public Media, August 11, 2022) Currently, The United Rail Unions and a group representing the seven Class 1 freight carriers (National Railway Labor Conference) are waiting on a non-binding recommendation from a Presidential Emergency Board, summoned...
August 9, 2022 | COVID, Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, PSR, TTD
(Source: People’s World, August 8, 2022) As the nation’s railroad worker unions presented their details for a new contract with the freight railroads to a Presidential Emergency Board, rank-and-file workers, upset with no contract since before the coronavirus...
August 8, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, PSR
(Source: The Real News Network, August 5, 2022) Last month, for The Real News, I reported on the egregious working conditions that rail workers on Class I freight railroads are facing, including punitive and inhumane attendance policies, chronic understaffing (after...
August 3, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, PSR, STB
(Source: Bloomberg, August 3, 2022) U.S. freight railroads are in a bit of a predicament, and it’s not just because they are going down to the wire on labor contract negotiations with their 115,000 workers. Large railroads, including Union Pacific Corp. and Warren...
