INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Amtrak has reached a tentative contract agreement with its more than 1,400 locomotive engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen has announced.
If ratified, the agreement would run through 2028. Features include retroactive payments retroactive to 2022, a 30% wage increase (34.12% compounded); 10 weeks of paid parental leave; increased away-from-home expenses; addition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a paid holiday; and improved bereavement leave.
Ballots are set to be mailed to union members on Wednesday, Nov. 15; ballots will be counted on Dec. 6, with results announced that day.
