May 17, 2025 | Mexico, News, Take Action, Top News
The BLET is urging all active and retired members throughout the United States to join our effort to protect the U.S. border from Mexico and save American jobs. Two Class I railroads —Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and Union Pacific (UP) — are moving forward with...
May 14, 2025 | Mexico, News, Take Action, Top News
Two Class I railroads are moving forward with plans to take jobs away from American train crews by bringing trains from Mexico into the United States using Mexican train crews. BLET members are urged to inform Congress about this risky situation and ask for their help...
March 15, 2024 | Legislation, News, Railroad Retirement, Take Action
BLET members have sent more than 2,500 messages in support of the bipartisan REEF Act (S. 1274) to members of the United States Senate since the bill was passed by the Senate Budget Committee on March 6. The Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness Act, or the REEF Act,...
March 7, 2024 | Legislation, News, Railroad Retirement, Take Action
A BLET-backed bill currently making its way through the United States Senate would restore full unemployment and sickness benefits to all railroad workers. For more than 10 years now, individual railroad workers have unfairly had these benefits reduced by about $200...
May 11, 2022 | 2-man Crews, News, Take Action
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, May 11 — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) is mobilizing its members in the State of New York to lobby in favor of a statewide two-person crew bill. Earlier this month, S3953B was introduced in the State Senate and a...
April 27, 2022 | News, PSR, Take Action
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, April 27 — BLET members and their families are urged to alert the White House and their members of Congress about the dangerous attendance policies imposed by Class I freight railroads by using the BLET’s new legislative outreach platform — “Take...
