The tentative agreement provides a 3.5% average wage increase per year over the next five years and also offers railroaders more vacation earlier in their career and “meaningful enhancements to an already robust suite of health care benefits,” according to BNSF.
“This achievement, following on ratified agreements with many of our other union partners, underscores our commitment to ensure continued exceptional service for our customers,” said BNSF President & CEO Katie Farmer. “Our success as a railroad is built upon the collaboration and mutual respect of our hard-working railroaders, and we look forward to taking this next step forward together.”
“We are pleased to announce the tentative agreement, signed in October between the IBEW and BNSF has been ratified by a strong majority. The improvements to the contract are historical in nature as it didn’t require any recommendation from a PEB and was settled prior to the end of the previous contract, said IBEW General Chairman Jeff Alred. “We look forward to working with BNSF in the future.”
BNSF has also reached ratified agreements with members of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (IBB), National Conference of Firemen and Oilers (NCFO), International Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation (SMART) Railroad, Mechanical and Engineering Department (MD), American Trains Dispatchers Association (ATDA), Transportation and Communications Union (TCU) and Brotherhood Railway Carmen (BRC).
