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11/1/2024
The National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC) announced today it delivered its bargaining notice to the 12 major rail labor organizations representing unionized rail employees, officially opening the industry’s national collective bargaining process.
The NCCC represents the freight-rail industry in national collective bargaining. In recent months, several Class I rail carriers and their union counterparts have reached — and in many cases, ratified — five-year local collective bargaining agreements ahead of the national bargaining round, NCCC officials said in a press release.
Additional ratifications are pending. The terms of these early local agreements call for increasing pay by 18.8% over five years; enhancing health and welfare benefits with no increase to the employee contribution rate; giving employees access to more paid vacation time earlier in their careers. These new local agreements build on the 24% wage increase from the 2022 bargaining round.
The NCCC’s Section 6 notices propose early resolution of the bargaining round based on the pattern established by these recent local agreements, NCCC officials said.
The National Railway Labor Conference (NRLC) is an association representing all U.S. Class I freight railroads and many smaller freight and passenger lines. Through its NCCC, the NRLC leads national negotiations with the 12 major rail labor organizations.