June 17, 2024 | News, SMART-TD
BLET Division 682 members working at the Indiana Harbor Belt (IHB) have been dealing with a raid from SMART-TD, which has been acting increasingly desperate due to continued membership losses. On June 12, at Hammond, IN, nearly 50 BLET members and officers gathered...
June 11, 2024 | News, SMART-TD
A Message to the Members: From the BLET Advisory Board June 11, 2024 Dear Brothers and Sisters: This is an open letter from the BLET Advisory Board in response to the comments made by the President of the Transportation Division of the International Association of...
January 29, 2024 | News, NS, Railroad Safety, SMART-TD
Joint safety initiative provides employees confidential forum to report safety issues Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC), the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation...
April 5, 2023 | CSX, Headlines, Paid Sick Leave, SMART-TD
(Source: Trains Magazine, April 3, 2023) CSX Transportation has reached a tentative agreement with the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers-Transportation Division B&O union to provide trainmen and conductors with paid sick leave benefits. Pending...
March 28, 2023 | 2-man Crews, Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, SMART-TD
(Source: Associated Press, March 23, 2023) Norfolk Southern is backing away from its push to reduce its train crews down to one person, the company said Thursday in a joint announcement with the nation’s largest rail union. Full story: Associated...
March 8, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NS, SMART-TD
(Source: Bloomberg News, March 7, 2023) More than six months before February’s toxic train derailment, a union representing Norfolk Southern Corp. employees in Ohio warned federal regulators that the railroad repeatedly disregarded its own safety rules for screening...
January 27, 2023 | 2-man Crews, Headlines, PSR, Railroad Safety, Remote Control, SMART-TD
(Source: SMART Transportation Division press release, January 26, 2023) In a letter dated Jan. 25, the general chairperson of SMART Transportation Division’s GO 577 informed Union Pacific’s senior vice president of operations that the union was withdrawing from any...
December 14, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines, PSR, SMART-TD
(Source: Galesburg Register-Mail, December 14, 2022) Members and supporters of local chapters of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers union (SMART) gathered in the rain Tuesday afternoon for a rally in Galesburg’s central...
November 16, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, SMART-TD
(Source: American Journal of Transportation, November 16, 2022) Dennis Pierce, the president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, has held 20 town hall meetings over the past month in an effort to answer questions and help explain to BLE-T members...
November 11, 2022 | National Negotiations 2019, News, SMART-TD
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, November 11 — At a November 9 Town Hall meeting, SMART Transportation Division President Jeremy Ferguson and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen President Dennis Pierce discussed the tentative National Rail Agreement with dozens of...
