FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway has reached paid sick time agreements with three more unions.
The railway said today that it reached agreements with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW); the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS); and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers-Mechanical and Engineering Department (SMART-MD).
Building upon existing BNSF paid time off and sickness benefits, IAMAW, BRS and SMART-MD members will receive an additional four paid days off to use as sick days and gain the ability to convert up to three personal-leave days to sick days each year.
BNSF said the agreements are part of larger discussions about modernizing the work environment.
BNSF said it remains committed to continued dialogue including the potential addition of paid sick days for those crafts that did not already have individual paid sick days prior to the recent national bargaining round.
These latest agreements follow similar deals with the Transportation Communications Union and National Conference of Firemen and Oilers announced in February [see “BNSF announces paid sick leave agreements …,” Trains News Wire, Feb. 23, 2023].
Harvey Spicer, I worked 10 years for Conrail. I understand perfectly what working in the industry is like.
maybe before I retire I’ll see it in the operating crafts……
Mr. Spicer: I was a contract employee at Metra (tower op then train dispatcher) 1987 until retirement at the end of 2007. We had 10 sick days per year and…half of what we didn’t use went into that employee’s “sick day bank”, that capped out at 90, for use in case of an operation or other need for a prolonged healthcare time off. And we didn’t entirely lose what we had in the “bank” at retirement. Half of what an employee had in their “bank” at retirement was paid out at straight time. Admittedly, I don’t remember the agreement regarding sick days during my years at IC/ICG 1972-1987. But we did have them.
Wake me up when the class 1s give operating employees 10 days a year without strings and punishment for actually using them.
Gregg just say what you really want, no one should ever work for a railroad .
Maybe your just wrong in your understanding of life in general.