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...
June 1, 2025 | News, Tentative Contract, Top News
The BLET has mailed ballots to members at three different railroads — New Jersey Transit, CSX Transportation, and TASI (Caltrain) — for voting on tentative agreements. Members at all three railroads who are eligible and have not received a ratification packet by...
May 13, 2025 | CSX, News, Tentative Contract, Top News
The BLET has reached a tentative agreement with CSX Transportation that will significantly benefit locomotive engineers. If ratified by the members, the tentative agreement would provide compounded general wage increases of 18.77 percent. Engineers would also earn...
May 8, 2025 | News, Tentative Contract, Top News
The BLET has reached a tentative five-year agreement with the Western New York & Pennsylvania (WNYP) Railroad, governing rates of pay, benefits, and work rules. If approved by the membership, the tentative agreement will run through 2030. It provides for a...
May 2, 2025 | News, Tentative Contract, Top News
The BLET has reached a tentative agreement with the Union Railroad of Pittsburgh, Pa. The deal governs pay, benefits, and work rules. If approved by the members, the contract will run through July of 2028 and provides for a $500 signing bonus and general wage...
April 15, 2025 | Contract Negotiations, News, Tentative Contract, Top News
Unless NJ Transit offers its engineers wage improvements that close the gap with engineers at other commuter railroads, “self-help” where union members can strike or NJ Transit can call a lockout could begin on May 16. NEWARK — Locomotive engineers at NJ Transit,...
