June 2, 2025 | News, Top News
Kevin Sexton, a member of BLET Division 269 in Long Island, N.Y., became the BLET’s newest National Vice President when he was sworn into office on Sunday, June 1. Sexton fills a vacancy on the Advisory Board created by the retirement of Eddie Hall in May. Sexton was...
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 30, 2025 | 2-man Crews, FRA, News, Top News
David Fink responds to questions during the Senate Commerce Committee’s confirmation hearing on May 13. ____________________ David Fink, the Trump administration’s nominee as Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), testified that he would...
May 29, 2025 | 2-man Crews, News, Railroad Safety, Top News
Aerial footage showing the aftermath of the Lac-Megantic rail disaster. (Photo: Ministry of Public Security (Quebec) ____________________ Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) solicited public feedback on possible federal safety regulations...
May 28, 2025 | Education and Training, News, Top News
The BLET Education & Training Department wrapped up its Legislative Representative Workshop in mid-May at Teamsters headquarters in Washington, D.C. The workshop for BLET Legislative Representatives (LRs) taught them how to become better lobbyists on behalf of the...
May 27, 2025 | News, Top News
BLET First Vice President Gary Best is a third-generation locomotive engineer. ____________________ Gary Best stands ready to serve the BLET and its members. His term as First Vice President, the union’s second-highest national office, began on May 1, 2025. “The BLET,...
May 22, 2025 | Commuter Rail, News, Top News
The Rotunda of the Pennsylvania State Capitol was packed in mid-May with BLET members from SEPTA and the members of other transit unions from across the state, who were joined by business leaders and transit riders urging the state legislature to support adequate...
May 21, 2025 | News, SLB Elections, Top News
Members of the BLET’s Wyoming State Legislative Board held their 2025 triennial meeting in Cheyenne, Wyo., on April 16-17. Cory Runion, a Union Pacific locomotive engineer and member of BLET Division 115 (Cheyenne, Wyo.), was reelected to his fifth term as Chairman....
May 21, 2025 | BNSF, GCA Elections, News, Top News
Jeff Thurman was reelected by acclamation to his fourth term as General Chairman of the BNSF (former SLSF)/MNA General Committee of Adjustment (GCA) at the GCA’s quadrennial meeting on May 14, 2025. The GCA represents 1,150 active and retired members from 15 different...
