CSX reaches agreement with Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

CSX (CSX) announced it has reached a tentative agreement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen on a new five-year single-system agreement covering approximately 3,400 locomotive engineers. The agreement mirrors the general wage increases, and health and welfare improvements from CSX’s agreements with 13 other unions. Locomotive engineers make up approximately 20 percent of CSX’s frontline workforce. If ratified, nearly 75% of CSX unionized workers will be covered by new agreements reached within the last nine months. To date, CSX has ratified agreements covering 54% of its unionized workforce. The only remaining major workgroup at CSX not covered by new agreements or a tentative agreement are trainmen/conductors represented by SMART-TD. CSX is currently engaged in bargaining with SMART-TD to consolidate separate territories, workforces, and execute a single-system collective agreement.