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News Updates

Headline News
November 3 -

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.

Headline News
October 21 -

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.

Headline News
October 21 -

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.

Headline News
October 20 -

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.

Headline News
October 13 -

Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employe Division members ratified a new five-year agreement with the Iowa Interstate Railroad on October 9, 2009.

Blogwatch
September 18 -

Our nation’s rail system remains vulnerable to a terrorist attack, blogs Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa on NationalJournal.com.

Headline News
September 11 -

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.

Headline News
September 9 -

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.

Headline News
August 31 -

Courses for Hazardous Materials Transportation and Chemical Emergency Response Training are being held at the National Labor College beginning October 25, 2009.