BLET Newsletter
Unions criticize PSR, high rate of furloughs in the rail industry
(Source: Freight Waves, November 11, 2019)CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Some rail unions are becoming more vocal about the rail industry’s practice ...
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BUILD grant to help fund rail transload facility near Spokane airport
The grant will help fund construction of a new rail-truck transload facility at the airport to improve multimodal freight movement. ...
Read More UP locomotive No. 4141 to be permanently displayed at Bush Library
(Source: Bryan-College Station Eagle, November 9, 2019)BRYAN, Texas — Union Pacific has announced that it is donating the No. 4141 ...
Read More Veterans Day 2019
By Dennis R. PierceBLET National PresidentINDEPENDENCE, Ohio, November 8 — On Veterans Day, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen ...
Read More AFL-CIO TTD: Precision Scheduled Railroading threatens to gut America’s freight rail system
(Source: Policy Statement by the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department (TTD), October 29, 2019)WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since the first U.S. freight trains departed ...
Read More AAR: Rail traffic down in October and for the week ending November 2, 2019
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, November 6, 2019)WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. ...
Read More Former Union Pacific employees raise safety concerns after Neff Yard layoffs
(Source: Televisions station KSHB, November 5, 2019)KANSAS CITY — Three weeks after Union Pacific announced plans to transfer operations away ...
Read More Save the date: 2020 BLET regional meetings
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, November 5 — The BLET National Division is pleased to announce the dates and locations of its 2020 ...
Read More Report: CRRC’s “chief obligation is to the Chinese state”
(Source: Railway Age, November 4, 2019)NEW YORK — “CRRC AND BEIJING’S DASH FOR GLOBAL ROLLING STOCK DOMINANCE,” a report prepared ...
Read More Railroad Retirement benefits will increase in 2020
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, November 1, 2019)CHICAGO — Most railroad retirement annuities, like social security benefits, will increase in ...
Read More BNSF earnings increase, but Berkshire Hathaway’s Q3 2019 profits decline 11%
(Source: Associated Press, November 2, 2019)OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett's company reported Saturday that it saw an 11% decline in ...
Read More Rail Chiefs announce formation of Coordinated Bargaining Coalition
CLEVELAND and WASHINGTON, D.C., November 1 — Top leaders of 10 rail unions announced today that their organizations will be ...
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The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen - UP Western Region GCA represents locomotive engineers working in the Western Region of the Union Pacific Railroad, which encompasses Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and portions of Nevada. We also represent members on the Portland & Western Railroad as well as the Portland Terminal Railroad.
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