October 29, 2024 | News, Railroad Safety, Top News
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) at a news conference in 2023 calling for passage of the bipartisan Railway Safety Act. ____________________ U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has a long history of supporting rail unions and the rights of workers. His commitment to...
October 28, 2024 | News, Organizing, Top News
The specter of job loss to autonomous train technology played a role as the BLET scored a significant short line organizing victory on October 22. A majority of train and engine service employees at the Georgia Central Railway voted to join BLET in a representation...
October 25, 2024 | News, Top News
In March of this year, BLET National Vice President Vince Verna testified that autonomous rail equipment is “not ready for prime time”. (BLET photo taken during 2022 demonstration in Culver City, Calif.) ____________________ Over the past two years, BLET...
October 23, 2024 | News, Top News
BLET members and their families from across the Lonestar State participated in the annual Houston Solidarity Rally on October 15, joining with several hundred other Texas railroad workers from other operating and shop crafts. See photo gallery of the event...
October 22, 2024 | News, Top News
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (center, blue tie) at the BLET Minnesota State Legislative Board meeting in April of 2023. ____________________ During campaign season, politicians will make promises — but can they deliver? Can they be believed? In Tim Walz’s case, the...
October 21, 2024 | CSX, News, Top News, Whistleblower
An administrative law judge at the U.S. Department of Labor has ordered CSX Transportation to pay a total of $453,510 to two BLET members who were wrongfully terminated for exercising their federally protected rights to report workplace safety concerns. The decision...
October 20, 2024 | News, Railroad Safety, Top News, TTD
Project 2025 is a 920-page document that spells out what Republicans plan to do if they were to gain the presidency in the 2024 election. While candidate Trump has denied knowledge of the document, it was written by at least 140 Trump advisers and former (and likely...
October 18, 2024 | News, Top News
The ratified implementing agreement with Metra governs 307 BLET members. Photo courtesy of Cory Rusch, BLET Division 659 ____________________ BLET members last week ratified an implementing agreement related to Metra’s takeover of services from the Union Pacific...
October 17, 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...
October 14, 2024 | Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2024, News, Top News
The BLET Advisory Board met on October 7 at the National Division to discuss many pressing issues crucial to the Brotherhood. Bargaining strategies for this next round of contract talks with the largest carriers were the main topic of discussion when the BLET...
