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IDOT Announces Multi-Year Program Public Meetings

IDOT Announces Multi-Year Program Public Meetings Illinois Transportation Secretary Randy Blankenhorn announced that the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is asking the public to participate in meetings being held throughout the state to help develop the...

FRA’s Feinberg to get Senate confirmation hearing this week

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation announced late last week it will hold a confirmation hearing on Thursday for President Obama’s nomination of Sarah Feinberg as the next administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)....

Labor Day 2015

  By Dennis R. Pierce BLET National President CLEVELAND, September 4 — This weekend we celebrate American workers and the labor movement. The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City. The Brotherhood of Locomotive...