General Chairperson John E. Lesniewski announced today that the B&O General Committee has negotiated a series of four (4) agreements dated June 24, 2010 giving our UTU trainmen the work in the new North Baltimore, Ohio, CSXI facility being constructed (contingent upon passage of the tentative Northern Mid-Atlantic Agreement).  This is a HUGE victory for our members and this Committee since most CSXI facilities in recent years have been contracted to a short line carrier (possibly non union) to switch.  In fact, in this case also all preliminary data and presentations depicted the Evansville Western Railroad as performing the switching at the Northwest Ohio (NWO) facility. 

Hopefully these agreements will set a pattern for the future.

Copies of the Northwest Ohio (NWO) Agreements governing the factility at North Baltimore, Ohio, may be viewed here.