Division 171 meetings are held the second Friday of the month at 11:00am at Shannon's Lounge, First St., Hoboken, New Jersey.  All BLET members are welcome to attend.  Meeting schedule

If you have been operating on of the new ALP-45D locomotives without instruction you need to submit a penatly time card.  If you need more information, please contact T. Haas

Its election year, if you are interested in getting in making a difference, please contact T. Haas or R. Brown.

We have set up an account with WearGuard (Aramark).  You can check out their products at www.aramark-uniform.com.  Members can see the "logo wear", either the double horse heads or the old style E

                           

New paid family leave law starts January 2009. For more information: http://lwd.state.nj.us/labor/fli/content/fli_fact_sheet.html

Supplemental Sickness Benefit Plan is now Broadspire Services.  You can contact them at 1-800-205-7651 or on the web: www.wkabsystem.com.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Service Plan (VSP) administers our vision care program. Visit their website: www.vsp.com.

Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS) takes effect November 16, 2009.  The website:www.closecallsrail.org

PAYROLL PROBLEMS?  Contact T. Haas, his email is:  ble171LC@gmail.com

Watch video of new dual mode ALP-45

FRA new rules for personal cell phone usage.  Please read Emergency Order No. 26 and FRA Use of Electronic Devices Chart

Read the Passenger Train Hours of Service Final Rule.  FRA   49 CFR Part 228. It goes into effect Oct. 15th, 2011.

To transfer from one Division to another, all you have to do is email your Secretary-Treasurer and request to be transferred. You do not have to give a reason. Just fill out Transfer Request Form and email. We will need to verify the transfer request.

Change of address, email or phone number please email: ble171st@gmail.com  

Any member who needs a copy of the Blue Agreement Book with the Side Letters, its available cd.  Send an email: ble171st@gmail.com     

Any member who never got the new 2010 Bylaws, please send an email: ble171st@gmail.com  

Special thanks to:  B. Moore for the use of her mileage table, R. Gademan and J. Maimone for the use of their photos

 

 

 

 

 

  

   

Hoboken, New Jersey