Patrick T. Driscoll is National Division Trustee of the 51,500-member Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), a Division of the Rail Conference, International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He was elected by acclamation to serve as Trustee and also Fourth Alternate Vice President at the BLET’s Fifth National Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 5, 2022.
Brother Driscoll currently serves as General Chairman of the Conrail SSA/CSXT-Northern District General Committee of Adjustment (GCA), which represents about 1,400 active and retired members. He is a CSXT locomotive engineer and a member of BLET Division 382 in Buffalo, N.Y.
Brother Patrick Driscoll joined the BLET in 1994 as a Conrail locomotive engineer. He served as Local Chairman of Division 382 from 2000 to 2015. In 2011, he was elected to Vice General Chairman of the Conrail/CSXT Northern District GCA, later elevating to Alternate Vice General Chairman of the GCA in 2014. In January 2015, he began serving as the General Chairman of the Conrail SAA/CSXCT Northern District General Committee of Adjustment, winning reelection by acclamation in 2015 and 2019.
Brother Driscoll represented Division 382 as a Delegate to the National Division at the Second and Third National Convention. He served as a member of the Bylaws Committee at the Third National Convention and as a member of the Arrangements Committee at the Fourth and Fifth National Conventions.
In 2018, Brother Driscoll was elected by acclamation to serve as Fifth Alternate National Vice President at the BLET’s Fourth National Convention in Las Vegas.
Brother Driscoll has also served as Secretary-Treasurer of the BLET’s former Eastern Meeting Union Association (EUMA) and currently serves a trustee of the National General Chairman Association.
As General Chairman Brother Driscoll has successfully arbitrated many discipline and rule cases at both CSXT and Conrail, participating in several on-property negotiations. At CSXT, the General Chairmen secured an Award that overturned CSXT’s practice of requiring Locomotive Engineers to transport themselves in carrier vehicles. He also helped secure an Award that overturned CSXT’s requirement that Locomotive Engineers dismount their equipment to inspect passing trains.
Brother Driscoll is a third generation railroader, following in the footsteps of his grandfather who served as a clerk on the New York Central and his father who was an Assistant Superintendent at Conrail. Prior to his railroad career, Brother Driscoll studied Business Finance and Accounting at Canisius College where he earned a BA in accounting.