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Teamsters Praise New Funding For High Speed Rail Projects
January 29 -

Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa issued a statement regarding President Obama’s announcement about the distribution of $8 billion for high speed rail projects in the United States.

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Obama Awards States $8 billion for High-Speed Rail
January 29 -

Work on a high-speed rail network connecting U.S. cities is set to accelerate as President Barack Obama awards $8 billion in stimulus act high-speed rail funding to 31 states.

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Teamsters Mark Fifth Anniversary Of Tragic Rail Crash In Graniteville, S.C.
January 6 -

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the tragic accident in Graniteville, S.C., which took the lives of Teamsters Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) member Chris Seeling and eight others.

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BLET Members Ratify Five-Year Contract With BNSF
January 4 -

By nearly a 3-to-1 majority, members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) have ratified a new five-year collective bargaining agreement with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway.

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Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood Discusses High Speed Rail on The Daily Show
December 18 -

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood discusses high speed rail and other national transportation projects, and resulting jobs created, with TV personality Jon Stewart on December 15, 2009.

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Columbus And Ohio Rail Road Workers Vote For BLET
December 10 -

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) scored a short line organizing victory December 10 as a majority of workers at the Ohio Central Railroad/ Columbus & Ohio Rail Road Company voted to make the BLET their designated collective bargaining representative.

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Union Pacific Vs. BLET: Supreme Court Upholds Right to Arbitration Hearing on the Merits
December 9 -

In a 9-0 decision issued yesterday, the United States Supreme Court affirmed an important right for BLET members and all railroad workers: the right to have their contract disputes heard on the merits by an arbitrator.

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Teamsters Canada Rail Conference And Canadian National Railways Sign Agreement To End Rail Strike
December 3 -

Early Wednesday afternoon Teamsters Canada Rail Conference and Canadian National Railway signed an agreement to end the five day old strike by locomotive engineers.

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Canadian National Railways Continues To Stall Settlement With Teamsters Canada Rail Conference
December 2 -

Late Sunday afternoon, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) offered yet another possible solution to Canadian National Railway (CN) to resolve the present impasse between the parties.

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Rail Workers Can Report Job Errors Without Penalty
December 1 -

NJ Transit rail workers can now secretly report on-the-job errors that threaten passenger safety without fearing retribution, under a federal pilot program the transit agency launched this week.

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Rail Conference

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.

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BMWED Member Profile

BMWED Member Profile:  Fighting for the Title - Veronica Mehling, a member of BMWED Local Lodge 686 of Laramie, Wyoming, is one of a kind.

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Who We Represent

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. 

 
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Contact the Conference

Staff members of the Teamsters Rail Conference can be reached at (202) 624-6328.                                .

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