October 31, 2026 | News, NS, Top News, UP, UP-NS Merger
Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) is continuing his fight against the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger. In a new op-ed published on October 30th in the High Plains Journal entitled “Kansas farmers need a fighter. I’m not backing down on this rail...
October 30, 2026 | NS, STB, Top News, UP, UP-NS Merger
On October 23, an administrative law judge ruled that Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena’s video remarks about raising rates for customers who don’t support the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger must be made public. The judge’s ruling related to a keynote address...
October 27, 2026 | News, NS, Top News, UP, UP-NS Merger
Long trains can keep railroad crossings blocked longer and leave emergency crews with fewer ways to reach people who need help. Communities should not have to wait for a disaster before railroads take that danger seriously. In Lockland, Ohio, a stopped Norfolk...
October 23, 2026 | News, NS, Top News, UP, UP-NS Merger
By Mark L. Wallace BLET National President and Teamsters Rail Conference President Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena seems perplexed that unions are fighting for their members. During UP’s October 22 earnings call, he questioned BLET’s opposition to the proposed UP-NS...
October 21, 2026 | Convention, News, Top News, UP-NS Merger
National President Mark Wallace and First Vice President Gary Best closed out the BLET’s Sixth National Convention with a behind closed doors members-only Town Hall-style meeting focused on the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger. The two national officers...
October 20, 2026 | BMWED, Convention, News, Top News, UP-NS Merger
Tony Cardwell, President of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED), shared BMWED’s concerns about the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger as he addressed delegates in the Thursday morning session of BLET’s Sixth National Convention....
October 11, 2026 | NS, Top News, UP, UP-NS Merger
More than 70 percent of union railroad workers now oppose the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger, after the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) last week became the seventh rail union to oppose the proposed acquisition. The IBEW’s announcement...
October 6, 2026 | NS, Top News, UP, UP-NS Merger
Shortly after the Stop the Rail Merger Coalition (STRMC) showed that unions representing 66 percent of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern’s unionized workforce oppose their proposed merger, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) announced today...
October 6, 2026 | BMWED, BNSF, News, NS, Top News, UP, UP-NS Merger
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are claiming a “majority of unions” representing their employees support their proposed merger. The facts show otherwise: unions representing nearly two-thirds of the unionized workforce oppose it. As of August 2026, the six unions...
October 4, 2026 | News, NS, STB, Top News, UP, UP-NS Merger
America’s farmers know a bad deal when they see one. That’s why two prominent national farmers’ groups made headlines this week by voicing concerns that the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger will drive up costs for farmers and consumers. On September 25,...
