Norfolk Southern Corporation, in partnership with BNSF Railway, has reached tentative, five-year collective bargaining agreements with the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen Division/TCU, the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers – Mechanical Department, and the Transportation Communications Union/IAM.
Norfolk Southern also reached tentative agreements with multiple General Committees for the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers – Transportation Division.
The agreements, which are subject to ratification, cover approximately 30% of Norfolk Southern’s union workforce and come four months before the opening of the next collective bargaining round. This gives covered employees unprecedented certainty about upcoming enhancements to their pay, health care, and vacation.
The tentative agreements 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 make meaningful enhancements to an already robust suite of health care benefits.
