BLET ends Wheeling & Lake Erie strike
BLET said it ended its strike against Wheeling & Lake Erie after securing an agreement protecting union conductors’ work. The post BLET ends Wheeling & Lake Erie strike appeared first on FreightWaves .
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) announced the resolution of a strike against Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway (W&LE) on November 11. The dispute came to an end when the railroad agreed to honor contractual protections and cease using managers instead of union conductors. BLET National President Mark L. Wallace declared that the strike concluded without court intervention, with members stopping their duties at noon.
Wallace highlighted the Railway Labor Act as the legal basis for the strike, emphasizing that the court ruling considered the replacement of union conductors with managers as a "major dispute" and a violation of the railroad's duty to maintain existing working conditions.
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