INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, January 21 — BLET National President Dennis R. Pierce announced today that Division 727 Local Chairman and Secretary-Treasurer Luke W. Myers has been appointed to a position of the President’s Staff, effective January 1, 2022.
A native of Colorado, Brother Myers will serve the National Division as Director of Bylaws Administration out of the union’s headquarters in Independence, Ohio. Brother Myers hired out as a trainman with the BNSF, on January 7, 2002, and earned promotion to locomotive engineer on October 8, 2005.
Brother Myers has been an active union officer since he joined the BLET as a member of Division 727 in Sterling, Colorado, on April 1, 2006. He currently serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the BNSF/MRL General Committee of Adjustment, having been elected to that office on July 10, 2019. He also served Division 727 as Secretary-Treasurer from 2007 to January 1, 2022, and as Local Chairman from July 1, 2018 to January 1, 2022.
Brother Myers comes from a large railroad family. His father, Rick L. Myers, is a member of Division 727 who hired out on August 16, 2010, and earned promotion to locomotive engineer from the BNSF on March 14, 2014. His father-in-law, James (Jim) B. Meeker, is a retired member of Division 727 who has belonged to the Brotherhood since September 1, 1978. Brother Meeker hired out on January 12, 1974 at Curtis, Nebraska. Meeker’s father, Raymond B. Meeker, and grandfather William B. Meeker both worked as agent/operators at Bertrand, Nebraska, and various other locations on the former Colorado, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.
Brother Myers and his wife Angie were married in 2003. They have two children, son Tucker and daughter Kaylee. During his time away from work, Brother Myers participates in outdoor activities such as bike riding, skiing and hiking. He especially enjoys spending time with family and friends. He and his family have climbed several Fourteeners (a mountain peak that exceeds 14,000 feet) and other high mountains in Colorado.
“I am honored and humbled to join the National Division office as part of the President’s Staff,” Brother Myers said. “In accepting my new role as Director of Bylaws Administration, I look forward to serving the membership. I will work hard every day to do my best to further my Brothers and Sisters and the Organization. Thank you.”
President Pierce welcomed Brother Myers to the National Division staff. “Luke Myers brings years of first-hand railroad and union knowledge to the table. I have every confidence in his ability to do the utmost for the BLET and its members in his new job as Director of Bylaws Administration. He will be a valuable asset to our Brotherhood for years to come.”