November 17, 2025 | News, NS, Top News, UP
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in a Sunday front page story that in the aftermath of the devastating 2023 East Palestine chemical spill and fire, Norfolk Southern invested hundreds of millions of dollars to boost safety through improved training programs,...
November 14, 2025 | Headlines, NS, STB, UP
(Source: Associated Press, November 14, 2025) Shareholders of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern backed the railroads’ proposed $85 billion merger to create the nation’s first coast-to-coast rail network.Roughly 99% of both railroads’ shareholders voted to support the...
October 24, 2025 | Headlines, Quarterly Income, UP
(Source: Union Pacific press release, October 23, 2025) Union Pacific Corporation reported 2025 third quarter net income of $1.8 billion, or $3.01 per diluted share. Results include merger costs of $41 million, or $0.07 per diluted share. Adjusted 2025 third quarter...
October 3, 2025 | Contract Agreement, News, Top News, UP
BLET members today ratified a new on-property agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad, which covers rates of pay, work rules, and health & welfare benefits for nearly 6,000 members employed at UP. Members voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratification, with 2,467...
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 16, 2025 | News, Top News, UP, Whistleblower
The Union Pacific Railroad remained in the headlines this week over its wrongful termination of a BLET member. As reported in our August 29 Weekly Recap, a BLET member received more than $184,000 in back pay after the BLET’s UP-Southern Region GCA got him his job...
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...
September 5, 2025 | News, Top News, UP, Whistleblower
A wrongfully-terminated BLET member received more than $184,000 in back pay after the BLET got him his job back, and he was awarded an additional $150,000 in punitive damages after a federal whistleblower investigation found that the Union Pacific Railroad violated...
August 23, 2025 | News, Top News, UP
BLET contends that UP’s intent to eliminate North Platte as a home terminal is contractually improper. Photo by Cory Rusch, BLET Division 659 ____________________ The BLET is objecting to a proposed plan presented by Union Pacific to relocate the home terminal...
August 8, 2025 | Contract Agreement, News, Top News, UP
BLET members today ratified an agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad that will provide a one-time general wage increase of 3% to approximately 6,000 BLET members employed at UP. The interim raise will go into effect on September 1, 2025. The interim raise is...
