Representing railroad workers in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a division of the @Teamsters Rail Conference, @BLET is committed to protecting members’ safety & rights.
Las Vegas, NV
Joined November 2012
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It’s been almost four years… only 7 of our 34 #safety recommendations have been implemented.
The 2023 Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, exposed critical rail safety gaps.
The NTSB issued 34 safety recommendations, many of which remain open.
Learn why action is still needed: bit.ly/4AoFFZW
#RailSafety
BLET Division 766 retweeted
Allowing firearms onboard trains raises significant concerns. How does @Amtrak plan to keep its passengers and rail workers safe?
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Drawing on two decades of railroad safety advocacy in Nevada, I examine the STB’s new policy statement and a question that deserves equal attention.. What responsibility comes with the authority to prevent someone else from acting?
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SPIRIT OF GIVING: BLET delegates donated 460 prepared meals to The Salvation Army of Southern Nevada during the union’s Sixth National Convention. Read more: blet.link/4iGIQ95
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Former STB Chairman Martin J. Oberman says merger application falls short of the 2001 rules’ “show me” standard on benefits, truck conversions, and competition. trains.com/pro/freight/class…
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U.S. Rep. Dina Titus addressed delegates at the BLET National Convention, raising concerns about rail safety, worker protections, the increased use of artificial intelligence, and the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger. Read more: blet.link/4BhI3CX @repdinatitus
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Thank you for bringing @BLET to #OnlyInDistrictOne and for recognizing me as a "true friend to labor." As Ranking Member of the @TransportDems Rail Subcommittee, I am fighting for the issues important to you: surface transportation reauthorization, rail safety, and the impact of AI on the rail workforce.
BLET Division 766 retweeted
Working near live tracks can turn deadly in seconds.
Two NTSB investigations highlight the fatal risks conductors face near active tracks.
Our new Safety Alert outlines actions to strengthen rail worker protections.
Read more: bit.ly/4s8w7zh
ALT Safety alert graphic highlighting the dangers of working near live train tracks. Features a worker close to a train and emphasizes the message, "Know the risk of working near live tracks." Provides a link for more information at NTSB.gov/Rail.
BLET Division 766 retweeted
Thank you to @BLET for inviting me to speak at their sixth national convention. Since 2020, 54 rail workers have been killed on-the-job and 19,000 others injured. These aren’t just numbers. Behind every statistic is a loved one: a parent, a spouse, a brother, a sister, a child, a friend.
Over 400 #safety recommendations to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), the railroads and others remain open with little to no action taken to implement them and save lives.
In fact, 40% of our recs to the FRA have been unanimously designated by the Board as “unacceptable action.”
The gap between a recommendation and its implementation isn’t measured in time, and it sure as hell isn’t measured in cost. It’s measured in people.
How many more Dereks need to die before action is taken (Baltimore)? How many more Chrises (South Carolina)? Mathews (Houston)? Louises (Ohio)? Michaels (Alabama)? Marks (Michigan)? How many more families in a family assistance center asking us if their loved one ever had a chance (California)?
Rail workers are dying. Their families deserve action.
BLET Division 766 retweeted
This is a win for rail safety! I am proud to be a long time supporter of the two person crew standard. Now let’s make it permanent in statute! @TransportDems @AFLCIO @Labor_Caucus @BLET766
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BLET Division 766 retweeted
The Union Pacific/Norfolk Southern mega merger would make one company richer than most countries on Earth, while raising prices for Americans.
The Teamsters Rail Conference, which is made up of BLET and BMWED, represents more than half of Union Pacific's and Norfolk Southern’s unionized workforce. We are leading a broad-based coalition to oppose the merger.
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.@UnionPacific wants to "talk facts" about its merger. Here are the facts:
❌ More unions support the merger
✅ Unions opposing it represent more than 7 in 10 UP and NS union workers
Learn more here: stoptherailmerger.com/fact-v…
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The most unsafe railroad in America, Union Pacific, wants to acquire Norfolk Southern in the largest railroad merger ever — making trains longer, creating more blocked crossings, and hiking everyday costs.
Take action now and tell the Surface Transportation Board to deny this merger: RailMergerComments.org
BLET Division 766 retweeted
Railroads opposing heavier trucks because bigger equipment creates additional safety & infrastructure concerns is a perfectly reasonable argument..
It does, however, require everyone to temporarily forget what has happened to train length & tonnage over the last fifteen years.
Last week, GoRail and @leagueofcities brought together safety, public works, and Capitol Hill experts to dig into a proposal moving through Congress: a 10-year "pilot program" that would raise the federal truck weight limit from 80,000 to 91,000 pounds.
Panelists included leaders from the @NoBiggerTrucks and @APWA_UST, along with law enforcement and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee staff.
Here's what they had to say about the proposal and the policy fight ahead: gorail.org/truck-size-and-we…
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Opinion: When the train has no crew, who runs toward the problem? vist.ly/5idjs
Thank you @repdinatitus, @RepHorsford and @RepSusieLee for joining more than 100 members of Congress in calling on the STB to fully examine the labor impacts of the proposed UP-NS merger. Railroad workers should not bear the cost of consolidation. hoyle.house.gov/imo/media/do…
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Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are circulating a signed letter urging the federal Surface Transportation Board (STB) to consider the consequences of the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern Rail merger for workers. Read more: blet.link/4xcFijd
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Nearly 23,000 union jobs gone in ten years.. A combined workforce down 31%.. Now 1,200 promised jobs are supposed to reassure railroad workers about the largest rail merger in modern history.
If those jobs are real, make them enforceable. Require vacancies to be filled as workers retire. Put the commitments in the STB order and attach consequences when they aren’t met.
Rail labor has spent enough time negotiating over promises.. We should be negotiating over guarantees.
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A resident of East Palestine, Ohio and a public health leader, Misti Allison knows first-hand the harmful effects that train derailments and chemical spills can have on communities and residents. Full story: blet.link/4ppwxzK
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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters joins Teamsters Canada and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) in calling on Canadian National Railway (CN) to immediately stop operating trains through active wildfire zones and put the safety of Teamsters Canada rail members first.
A recent viral video on social media shows a CN freight train engulfed in flames while traveling through an active wildfire in Northern Ontario. The train was operated by Teamsters Canada Rail Conference members, whose quick thinking and professionalism ensured that no one was injured. But those workers should never have been put in that position. CN should never be sending train crews into such dangerous conditions.