October 1, 2025 | News, Tentative Contract, Top News
BLET members who work for Metra-UP Line should have received a mailing from the National Division with voting instructions on a tentative agreement with the commuter agency. Members who are eligible and have not received a ballot by today, October 1, should visit the...
September 23, 2025 | News, Tentative Contract, Top News, UP
BLET members who work for the Union Pacific Railroad should have received a mailing from the National Division containing a contract synopsis and a ballot for voting on the tentative agreement. Members who are eligible and have not received a ballot by today,...
September 23, 2025 | News, Tentative Contract, Top News
The BLET has reached a tentative agreement with Metra that would provide 93 BLET members with 3.5 percent general wage increases. The agreement covers BLET members employed by Metra who operate on the Metra-UP Lines and are represented by the Union Pacific Northern...
September 12, 2025 | News, Tentative Contract, Top News, UP
The BLET has reached a tentative on-property agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad covering rates of pay, work rules, and health & welfare benefits for over 6,000 BLET members employed at UP. Highlights of the tentative five-year contract include: General wage...
August 4, 2025 | News, Tentative Contract, Top News
The BLET has mailed ballots to members at three different railroads — Union Pacific, New York & Atlantic, and Arizona Eastern Railway — for voting on tentative agreements. A hotline number has been established by the BLET National Division for eligible members who...
July 31, 2025 | News, Tentative Contract, Top News
The tentative contract includes general wage increases and a potential retention payment. Ballots are due by Wednesday, August 6. Photo by MOBlockLimit on Flickr ____________________ The BLET has reached a tentative agreement with the New York & Atlantic Railway...
July 30, 2025 | News, Tentative Contract, Top News
The BLET has reached a tentative five-year agreement with the Arizona Eastern Railway (AZER). If ratified by the members, it would become the first union contract for the formerly non-union workers who voted to join BLET in June 2024. The tentative agreement would...
July 22, 2025 | News, Tentative Contract, Top News, UP
The BLET has reached a tentative agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad that would provide a general wage increase of 3% to approximately 6,000 BLET members employed at UP, if ratified. The proposed “interim raise” is described in the balloting materials that are...
June 11, 2025 | Contract Negotiations, News, Tentative Contract, Top News
The tentative five-year deal provides retroactive pay and general wage increases through 2027. Ballots are due back to the National Division by June 26. ____________________ The BLET has reached a tentative agreement with the Terminal Railway-Alabama State Docks...
June 2, 2025 | Contract Negotiations, News, Tentative Contract, Top News
On May 18, the BLET and NJ Transit reached a tentative agreement to end a three-day strike at the nation’s third-largest commuter railroad, which affected 350,000 riders across the Garden State and into New York City. Balloting is now underway as BLET’s 450 members...
