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Union Proud, Union Strong

Let’s Join Together To Fight For Your National Contract By Dennis R. Pierce BLET National President (BLET Editor’s Note: The following message from BLET National President Dennis R. Pierce has been excerpted from the January 2017 issue of the Locomotive Engineers and...

BLET National Scholarship Directory

2017 BLET Scholarship Directory INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, January 25 — Each year, the BLET National Division compiles a list of scholarship opportunities available to the children of BLET members. Numerous financial aid opportunities are published here in the 2017 BLET...

Supreme Court denies review of BLET victory on two-person train crews

BLET NEWS FLASH http://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/newsflash.asp?id=5923 INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, January 17 — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has secured another significant victory for rail workers — this time from the highest court in the United...

BLET members to keep Health FSA plan for 2017

BLET NEWS FLASH http://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/newsflash.asp?id=5919 INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, December 27 — Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen will keep their Health Flexible Spending Accounts (Health FSA) through 2017 thanks to an increased...

In Life After Coal, Appalachia Attempts to Reinvent Itself

BY ALAN GREENBLATT | DECEMBER 2016 (AP/David Goldman)             Dan Mosley’s father was a coal miner in Harlan County, in the hills of Eastern Kentucky. So were his grandfathers, his uncles — all his people. Mosley went a different route, though. He became a...