INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Train and engine service workers at the Utah Central Railway have voted to join the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, the union has announced — the seventh short line to join the union since 2023.
The vote, certified by the National Mediation Board in December, was unanimous, the union said in a press release.
The Utah Central operates 19 miles of railway in three disconnected segments in the Ogden, Utah, area, interchanging with BNSF and Union Pacific. It is one of 31 Patriot Rail short lines, having been acquired in 2008, and is the first Patriot Rail property to be unionized, the BLET says.
The line switches a municipal garbage facility and makes some switching moves to A salt plant and a Specialty metals facility near the Great Salt Lake. They have the cushiest jobs in the state. Not sure why they think they need Union help. What will happen is the railroad will shut down and the loads will move by truck. Way to go boys, you just voted yourselves out of work.
unions do comein when things are mismanaged,but mismanagement is how railroad do things, it about wall street,I worked for AMTRAK 25 years and mamagement treated worker badly, but incopadence got you promted
Being a retired engineer, I have nothing against the BLET.
But it is a sorry case of bad management that caused the employees to resort to joining a union to get fair treatment.