July 22, 2022 | Contract Agreement, News, Short Line
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, July 22 — Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) on July 21 ratified a new on-property agreement with the Illinois & Midland Railroad. The BLET secured General Wage increases of 29 percent over the life of the...
June 20, 2022 | Contract Agreement, CP, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, June 20 — By a nearly 5-to-1 ratio, members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) ratified a new on-property agreement with the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (DM&E) on June 13, 2022. The agreement provides...
February 15, 2022 | Commuter Rail, Contract Agreement, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, February 15 — On February 7, 2022, members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with Metra (the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation, or NIRCRC). The...
January 20, 2022 | Contract Agreement, News, Short Line
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, January 14 — In early January, members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with the New York & Atlantic Railway (NY&A), which governs rates of pay, work rules and...
November 9, 2021 | Commuter Rail, Contract Agreement, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, November 9, 2021) PHILADELPHIA — Members of the union representing workers in the city transit division have ratified a two-year contract with SEPTA that includes raises, a hazard bonus for working during the pandemic, and parental...
October 29, 2021 | Commuter Rail, Contract Agreement, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, October 29, 2021) PHILADELPHIA — Members of Transport Workers Local 234 would get 3% annual raises in each of the two years of the tentative contract, as well as a one-time pandemic hazard bonus of one dollar for each hour worked...
May 24, 2018 | Contract Agreement, Headlines, Unions
(Source: National Railway Labor Conference (NRLC) press release, May 23, 2018) ARLINGTON, Va. — An arbitration board has ruled that the pattern health care terms adopted by the freight railroads and nine of the other unions in national bargaining should apply to the...
August 8, 2007 | Contract Agreement, Headlines, NS
(Reuters circulated the following on August 7.) CHICAGO — Norfolk Southern Corp. said on Tuesday it reached a tentative agreement with a union representing locomotive engineers at the U.S. railroad that will continue to link their compensation to the company’s...
July 23, 2007 | Amtrak, Contract Agreement, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on July 20.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A union representing Amtrak’s 1,300 locomotive engineers announced Friday that it has reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract with the passenger railroad. Details were...
July 18, 2007 | Contract Agreement, Headlines, Unions
(The National Carriers Conference Committee issued the following on July 17.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the help of National Mediation Board Mediator Ernie DuBester, the nation’s major freight railroads reached a tentative agreement Tuesday with five rail labor...
