BLET Newsletter
Taming Your Wild Witnesses
(Source: Conference Reporter Newsletter 05/23/2019) At the Boston conference last week, a senior labor arbitrator offered advice about interviewing and ...
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FRA withdraws proposed train-crew staffing rule
FRA Administrator Ronald Batory Photo – fra.dot.gov (Source: Progressive Railroading 05/24/2019) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has withdrawn its 2016 proposed rulemaking ...
Read More Memorial Day 2019
By Dennis R. Pierce BLET National PresidentINDEPENDENCE, Ohio, May 24 — As we observe Memorial Day 2019, I ask all members ...
Read More BLET to host Local Chairman training class, August 11-16, 2019
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, May 23 — The BLET Education and Training Department will host a Local Chairman training class from August ...
Read More UP Health launches NotchEight blog
Blog will provide health, wellness, and benefits information for UP Health members SALT LAKE CITY, May 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- UP Health, ...
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U.S. railroads registered higher carload volume in Week 20
(Source: Progressive Railroading 05/23/2019) U.S. railroads logged mixed traffic results for the week ending May 18, with carload activity up ...
Read More Four of six trains to be removed from Amtrak Cascades service after NTSB recommendation
(Source: Television station KIRO 7, May 22, 2019) SEATTLE — The State of Washington will soon remove the type of older ...
Read More Oregon’s two Senators demand answers from UP on layoffs
(Source: My Columbia Basin, May 22, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oregon’s two U.S. senators are demanding Union Pacific Railroad answer questions ...
Read More Open enrollment for the BLET Short Term Disability Enhanced-Plan coverage
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, May 22 — There are less than two weeks left in the open enrollment for the BLET’s Short ...
Read More Space remains for June 9-13 Secretary-Treasurer class
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, May 21 — Registration is still open for the Secretary-Treasurer training class scheduled for June 9-13, 2019, at ...
Read More City of Palestine asks UP to prove local employment levels
(Source: Palestine Herald-Press, May 21, 2019) PALESTINE, Texas — City officials have asked Union Pacific to prove they are employing enough ...
Read More NTSB: “The engineer was set up to fail” in 2017 Amtrak derailment that killed 3 near Dupont, Wash.
(Source: Tacoma News Tribune, May 21, 2019) TACOMA, Wash. — An Amtrak train derailment near DuPont that killed three and injured ...
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