BNSF reaches tentative labor agreement with IBEW as NCFO ratifies with the Class I railroad

53 percent of railroad union workforce now covered under tentative or ratified labor agreements

FORT WORTH, Texas – BNSF Railway, one of North America’s leading transportation companies, today announced it has reached a tentative, five-year collective bargaining agreement with The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).

Additionally, members of The National Conference of Firemen and Oilers (NCFO) have voted to ratify their collective bargaining agreement with the Class I railroad. 

The agreement with IBEW marks the ninth tentative agreement announced by BNSF in the last two months, ahead of the collective bargaining round, now representing more than 16,300 employees and 53 percent of BNSF’s union workforce.
The agreements, all subject to ratification, provide a 3.5-percent average wage increase per year over the next five years. They also offer railroaders more vacation earlier in their career and meaningful enhancements to an already robust suite of health care benefits.

In recent weeks, BNSF has also reached ratified agreements with members of The International Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation (SMART) Railroad, Mechanical and Engineering Department (MD), The American Trains Dispatchers Association (ATDA), The Transportation and Communications Union (TCU) and Brotherhood Railway Carmen, (BRC). The railroad has reached tentative agreements with The International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers – Transportation Division (SMART-TD), the union’s Yardmasters (SMART-TD-YDM), and The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (IBB).

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Kendall Kirkham Sloan
Director, External Communications
Media@BNSF.com