CSX and Locomotive Engineers Reach Tentative Five-Year Agreement
CSX Announces Tentative Labor Agreement with Locomotive Engineers
On Friday, CSX Corporation announced it has reached a tentative agreement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) on a new five-year single-system agreement covering approximately 3,400 locomotive engineers.
This is the first agreement reached by a Class I freight railroad with BLET. The agreement mirrors the general wage increases and health and welfare improvements from CSX’s agreements with 13 other unions.
Locomotive engineers make up approximately 20% of CSX’s frontline workforce. If ratified, nearly 75% of CSX unionized workers will be covered by new agreements reached within the last nine months. To date, CSX has ratified agreements covering 54% of its unionized workforce.
The only remaining major workgroup at CSX not covered by new agreements or a tentative agreement are trainmen/conductors represented by SMART-TD. CSX said it is currently engaged in bargaining with SMART-TD to consolidate separate territories, workforces, and execute a single-system collective agreement.
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