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9/6/2022
Ballots will be mailed Sept. 9 to eligible voters for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen’s (BLET) tentative BNSF-Montana Rail Link implementing agreement and the Oregon Short Line protective agreement.
Earlier this year, the MRL announced it would terminate its lease agreement with BNSF Railway Co., with BNSF resuming operations of the line. The implementing agreement governs BNSF's hiring of the BLET-represented MRL employees, their seniority, work rules, pay, benefits and integration into the BNSF system, BLET officials said in a press release.
The implementing agreement and Oregon Short Line protective agreement govern 500 BLET members who work for the MRL.
BLET members who work for the MRL belong to two BLET divisions: Division 232 in Laurel, Montana, and Division 262 in Missoula, Montana. For collective bargaining purposes, they are represented by the BNSF/MRL General Committee of Adjustment.
Ballots are due Sept. 30.