BLET171

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, Division 171, Hoboken, New Jersey

We represent the Locomotive Engineers working for New Jersey Transit.

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. Newly promoted engineer's are encouraged to join.

J. Picca is our Safety Officer. ANY safety issues you see, please let him know. If your cell phone has a camera feature, e-mail equipment defects or safety problems to: safety@blet171.org . These photos will be posted on this web-site.

The new 2006 Bylaws are going to be mailed directly to the membership. It's important that Cleveland has your correct address. You can change your address by going online to the BLET website and logging into the "members area".

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

Supplemental Sickness Benefit Plan is now Broadspire Services. You can contact them at 1-800-205-7651 or on the web: www.wkabsystem.com.

Senate Bill 1878 requiring all New Jersey State workers to live in New Jersey.

Interesting, since we are not state employees, we do not have state benefits and nothing we have (i.e. I.D.'s) that indicate we are state employees. We are unable to belong to the State Credit Union, why, because we are not state employees.