UTU Local 426 Archived News.
Subject: The United Transportation Union has ratified the national rail agreement.
Date: 06/13/2008
News
The United Transportation Union has ratified the national rail agreement covering wages, rules and working conditions. 45,000 ballots were mailed, 40 percent of those eligible to vote cast ballots. 18,076 votes were cast, with 15,313, or 85 percent, voting in favor of the agreement. The ratified agreement is retroactive to Jan. 1, 2005, and remains in force through Dec. 31, 2009. Per Side Letter #1, the carriers will make all reasonable efforts to pay the retroactive portion of such general wage increases as soon as possible and no later than sixty (60) days after the date of this Agreement.