AZER T&E Employees Vote to Join BLET
Arizona Eastern Railway (AZER) T&E employees have voted to join the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), becoming the union’s newest members.
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Class I Briefs: CSX, NS, UP
CSX, Norfolk Southern (NS), Union Pacific (UP) and The Greenbrier Companies rank on USA Today’s America’s Climate Leaders 2024 list. Also, NS collaborates with its railroaders to enhance their “home away from home”; and UP honors Mechanical employees for working 20 years injury-free.
BLET Reaches Tentative Agreement With CF&E
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) announced May 17 that it has reached a tentative agreement with Genesee & Wyoming (G&W) subsidiary Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern Railroad (CFE), a
NTSB Issues Preliminary Report on 2024 CSX Head-On Collision
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a preliminary report for its ongoing investigation of the April 15, 2024, head-on collision of a CSX train with a CSX stationary, loaded rock train in Folkston, Ga. The agency said future work will focus on “the industry-wide operational procedures for train movements during a signal suspension, training standards on the manual operation of dual-controlled switches, and the effectiveness of job briefings.”
BLET’s CN/WC Divisions Ratify Agreement
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen’s (BLET) nine CN/Wisconsin Central (CN/WC) divisions have voted unanimously in favor of a new “quality of life agreement” covering roughly 600 engineers, the union reported in the May 3 edition of its weekly email newsletter.
BLET, CN/WC Reach Tentative Agreement
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has reached a tentative agreement for 600 engineers at CN/Wisconsin Central (WC), which the union said “provides significant quality of life improvements and comes after several months of negotiations.”
BLET Ratifies New Contracts With Two G&W Properties
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has ratified new contracts with Genesee & Wyoming’s (G&W) Utah Railway and Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad (M&NA).
BLET, B&E Ratify New Contract
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and Genesee & Wyoming subsidiary Berkshire & Eastern Railroad have ratified a new agreement governing rates of pay, benefits and work rules for 32 members.
NS: First Class I to Participate in FRA C3RS (UPDATED 2/16)
Norfolk Southern (NS) on Feb. 15 formally signed an agreement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers–Transportation Division
BLET: Ballots in the Mail to Union Members at Three Short Lines
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) recently announced that a contract ratification vote is under way for tentative agreements with Utah Railway and Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad (M&NA), as well as Berkshire & Eastern Railroad (B&E), for which the union has reached a tentative contract with.