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BLET NEWS FLASH Bipartisan group of 27 U.S. legislators urge DOT’s Chao to block KCS safety waiver that allows Mexican train crews to operate in U.S. http://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/newsflash.asp?id=8140 (BLET Editor’s Note: The following press release was...Labor Day 2018
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BLET NEWS FLASH Labor Day 2018 By Dennis R. Pierce BLET National President INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, August 31 – When the first Labor Day was celebrated in New York City in 1882, our Brotherhood had been fighting to improve wages and working conditions for locomotive...Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen asks President Trump to intervene in Laredo
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http://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/newsflash.asp?id=8119 INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, July 10 – As part of its continuing fight to save American jobs on the Texas border, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has asked President Donald J. Trump to help...Trump chooses former Metra Chair Oberman for open STB seat
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