February 14, 2020 | Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2019, News
By Dennis R. Pierce, BLET National President (BLET Editor’s Note: The following message from BLET National President Dennis R. Pierce has been excerpted from the January 2020 issue of the Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen News.) INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, February 14 — As we...
November 1, 2019 | Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2019, News
CLEVELAND and WASHINGTON, D.C., November 1 — Top leaders of 10 rail unions announced today that their organizations will be participating in coordinated bargaining in the round of national negotiations that began on November 1, 2019. The unions comprising the...
November 8, 2018 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines
(Source: National Railway Labor Conference press release, November 8, 2018) ARLINGTON, Va. — The National Railway Labor Conference today announced the appointment of Mr. Brendan M. Branon as Chairman of the National Railway Labor Conference (NRLC), effective January...
January 13, 2017 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines, War on Workers
(Source: Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division press release, January 12, 2017) In his December 26, 2016 press release, BLET President Dennis Pierce made it clear that right now is the time to fight, and made a call to arms to BLET members to join him in...
December 19, 2014 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, December 18, 2014) Six rail labor unions will bargain jointly in the upcoming round of negotiations for the next national agreements with railroads, leaders of the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet...
November 30, 2011 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines
(Source: Journal of Commerce, November 29, 2011) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Retail Federation (NRF) and the National Industrial Transportation League (NITL) urged Congress to step in to avert a potential nationwide strike next week, saying the disruption of rail...
November 29, 2011 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines
(Source: Lincoln Journal Star, November 28, 2011) LINCOLN, Neb. — The nation’s freight railroads have agreed with the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED) to extend negotiations beyond a “cooling-off” period set to expire Dec....
November 18, 2011 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines
(Source: Journal of Commerce, November 17, 2011) WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to the Journal of Commerce, major U.S. railroads have new tentative agreements with four of the 11 unions needed to avert a potential nationwide strike or lockout in December: the...
October 14, 2011 | Contract Negotiations, News
By Dennis R. Pierce BLET National President CLEVELAND, October 14 — This month’s BLET Newsletter devotes primary coverage to our ongoing and yet to be resolved dispute with the National Carrier’s Conference Committee over the current round of bargaining. As you all...
March 1, 2007 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines
(The Rail Labor Bargaining Coalition circulated the following news release on February 28.) WASHINGTON – An alliance of seven national railroad unions reached tentative agreement February 28 with the nation’s freight railroads on a new collective bargaining pact – the...
