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...
November 8, 2022 | National Negotiations 2019, News, SMART-TD
2023 Payment Rates Confirmed for H&W Plans INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, November 8 — Late last week, members of the Cooperating Railway Labor Organizations (CRLO) and the National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC) convened to review and renew the payment rates for the...
October 20, 2022 | National Negotiations 2019, News, SMART-TD
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, October 20 — A large contingent of BLET members and officers participated in a solidarity rally in Houston on October 18. The rally was an all-day meeting, held from noon to 7:00 p.m. The purpose was to create and show solidarity among members of...
September 11, 2022 | National Negotiations 2019, News, SMART-TD
Statement by Jeremy Ferguson, President, SMART Transportation Division and Dennis Pierce, President, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, Teamsters Rail Conference on Move announced by the nation’s largest railroads today to further abuse shippers and...
September 2, 2022 | National Negotiations 2019, News, SMART-TD
The following is a statement from BLET President Dennis Pierce and SMART-TD President Jeremy Ferguson. CLEVELAND, September 2 — As we approach Labor Day 2022, our Unions stand at a crossroads. While our normal messages heading into one of the most important days for...
August 29, 2022 | CSX, Headlines, PSR, SMART-TD, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, August 26, 2022) CSX Transportation is pushing back against allegations a local union official has made regarding operations and safety at the railroad’s hump yard in Selkirk, N.Y. Full story: Trains Magazine
