Your Union has won a seven year legal battle for your rights with BNSF,
IP Martinez has issued a temporary March Union Meeting Special Dispensation and is strongly advising Local Lodges not to hold March Union Meetings unless absolutely necessary.
The figures show below illustrate the per-employee per-month cost of a Class I railroad employer for the wages and benefits to each Railroad Machinist effective January 1,2019. read more
2020 Basic Local Chairman Class Call Letter and attendance forms.
OFFICE OF THE LABOR MEMBER
U.S. RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
On behalf of Labor Member of the Board John Bragg, we are providing the following link of the Railroad Retirement Board’s Quarterly Benefit Statistics – July thru September 2019.
If you have Internet access, you may click on or type the address shown below to view this online:
https://rrb.gov/sites/default/files/2020-01/stat_qbs0919.pdf
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration
(FRA) today announced it has established a new, dedicated webpage for the public and law
enforcement to report blocked highway-rail grade crossings.
This is the section 6 notice for this round of National Negotiations as presented to the NCCC by PDGC Mike Perry.
District Lodge 19 mourns the Loss of our Executive Board Member Jim Spalo, age 59. Brother Spalo was initiated into the IAMAW on June 1st, 2000. He was a devoted member of Local Lodge 478 in Chicago, IL where he served as Recording Secretary and Local Chairman.
ATTENTION AMTRAK EMPLOYEES:
DEPENDENT VERIFICATION AUDIT FOR BENEFIT PLANS.
Amtrak will be conducting a dependent verification audit for all employees for benefits enrollment for 2020. A third-party vendor (Dialog Direct) will be conducting this audit. Certain documentation must be provided to Dialog Direct no later than November 29, 2019. All employees must respond and do so by November 29, 2019. Employees who do not respond will have their benefits terminated on December 1, 2019.
Amtrak employees should start receiving packets at their homes the week of September 23, 2019 that will include a personal identification Pin Number to be used when submitting forms or talking to a Dialog Direct representative.
A sample copy of the Eligibility and Documentation instruction is attached for your review. A call center (888-437-2231) will be open September 30 along with a fax line for submitting forms (1-888-788-2668). More information on the audit can be found at https://www.dependentverification.budco.com/user/cdv on September 27, 2019.
FROM THE NATIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE JOINT PLANNING COMMITTEE:
Beginning January 1, 2020 until March 31, 2020, the Joint Plan Committee, consisting of the Cooperating Railway Labor Organizations (CRLO) and the National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC) Health and Welfare Committee, is conducting a spouse eligibility verification of The Railroad Employees National Health and Welfare Plan for U.S. Employees to ensure the Plan is providing medical, dental and vision benefits only to eligible spouses.
Please read the communications concerning the spouse audit from President Directing General Chairman, Mike Perry and the Joint Plan Committee.
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