December 3, 2024 | Education and Training, News, Top News
The BLET National Division Education & Training Department is pleased to announce an End-of-Year Secretary-Treasurer refresher training class. The class will provide a valuable opportunity to review end-of-year reporting and compliance due dates. In addition, we...
December 2, 2024 | News, Tentative Contract, Top News
Ballots for the five-year tentative contract with Indiana Southern Railroad are due back to the National Division by December 5. Photo: courtesy of Grady McKinley ____________________ The BLET has reached a tentative contract with the Indiana Southern Railroad (ISRR)....
November 29, 2024 | News, Tentative Contract, Top News
TThe ballots for the five-year tentative contract with the Huron and Eastern Railway are due back to the National Division by December 5. Photo: courtesy of Thomas Kurecka ____________________ he BLET has reached a tentative contract with the Huron and Eastern Railway...
November 27, 2024 | 2-man Crews, News, Top News
Thanksgiving is a time for appreciation and gratitude, and there were many expressions of profound thanks as two BLET members were reunited yesterday for the first time since one Brother helped save the other’s life. On October 27, the quick-thinking and decisive...
November 26, 2024 | Contract Negotiations, News, Top News
On Thursday, November 21, President Biden appointed a second Presidential Emergency Board — PEB No. 252 — to investigate the ongoing years-long collective bargaining dispute between the BLET and New Jersey Transit (NJT). The report of PEB 251, appointed in July, was...
November 25, 2024 | News, Short Line, Tentative Contract, Top News
Railroad workers at the Florida, Gulf & Atlantic Railway (FG&A), who joined the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen to gain collective bargaining rights, have ratified their first-ever contract. This marks a significant milestone for train and...
November 22, 2024 | C3RS, Legislation, News, Railroad Safety, Top News
The BLET is urgently working to secure passage of the House Railroad Safety Enhancement Act of 2024 (H.R. 8996) before Congress adjourns. In a Take Action alert issued today, BLET members and their families are asked to use the Take Action tool on the BLET National...
November 21, 2024 | News, Top News
The BLET National Division is now taking requests from members who wish to receive a new Time Book for 2025. These books will only be distributed to members upon request. To receive a Time Book, members must first log in to the Members’ Area of the BLET National...
November 20, 2024 | Contract Negotiations, News, Top News
To better understand how rail labor and management reach agreements on rates of pay and work rules, the BLET has produced a series of briefs, Understanding collective bargaining under the Railway Labor Act, explaining how the Railway Labor Act of 1926 works. This...
November 19, 2024 | News, Tentative Contract, Top News
Ballots have been mailed to Florida, Gulf & Atlantic Railway members who are voting on a tentative contract with the short line railroad. If ratified, this will be the first union contract for operating employees at the formerly non-union company. Ballots are due...
