Organized labor appears to be gaining the upper hand in the skies and on rails, as labor and business battle for influence under the Obama administration.
BMWED National Division President Freddie Simpson convened a meeting on October 21, 2009 for the purpose of reviewing membership surveys and finalizing bargaining demands that will be served on the nation’s freight railroads in November. The national contract with most freight railroads will expire January 1, 2010 and the next round of bargaining will begin.
The union representing Metrolink engineers today filed a federal lawsuit to halt the video-surveillance systems recently installed in all of the commuter rail line’s locomotives.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has taken legal action in State and Federal Court in California to halt Metrolink’s illegal audio and video surveillance of its members inside locomotive cabs.
By an 85 percent majority, members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen yesterday ratified a new five-year collective bargaining agreement with CSX Transportation.
After years of being out on loan and then lost, the paintings, titled "History of United States Locomotives," are back in the possession of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.
Courses for Hazardous Materials Transportation and Chemical Emergency Response Training are being held at the National Labor College beginning October 25, 2009.
Welcome to the Rail Conference web page. We hope this website will serve as a source of information on the latest developments in the Conference.The Teamsters Rail Conference is the organization created by the mergers of the BLET and the BMWED into the Teamsters Union.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has always been at the forefront when it comes to protecting union jobs, and the union’s recent contract settlement with the Wheeling & Lake Erie (W&LE) railroad is no exception.
The Teamsters Rail Conference represents more than 70,000 locomotive engineers, trainmen and maintenance of way workers on commuter, passenger and freight rail lines across the United States.
Bargaining talks broke down early this morning and without a response from Via Rail to their latest offer, locomotive engineers and yardmasters have been forced to take strike action. The locomotive engineers and yardmasters at VIA Rail Canada have been without a collective agreement since Dec. 31, 2006.
