INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Engineers who operate Caltrain commuter trains have ratified a new five-year agreement with the service’s contract operator, Transit Services America, Inc., the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen has announced.
The agreement, announced last week, covers 68 locomotive engineers. Fifty-six of those BLET members voted, with 50 (or 89%) voting in favor and six (11%) against. The union did not release contract terms, but BLET National President Mark Wallace said in a press release that the agreement “provides clear economic gains and improvements to existing work rules for our Caltrain members.”
TASI is a division of Herzog, the North American rail and highway contractor that provides rail construction, maintenance, testing, and specialty equipment, along with its transit operations
