By Roshan Fernandez

CSX reached a tentative labor agreement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen on a five-year contract that covers about 3,400 workers.

Locomotive engineers make up about 20% of the company's frontline workforce, the railroad operator said Friday.

The pact includes general wage increases and health and welfare improvements similar to CSX's agreements with 13 other unions, the company said.

It's the first agreement reached by a Class I freight railroad with the BLET, CSX said.

If ratified nearly 75% of CSX's unionized workers will be covered by labor agreements reached in the last nine months.

CSX said conductors and train workers represented by SMART-TD would then be the only work force not covered by the recent labor agreements. The company said it is currently bargaining with that union to consolidate separate territories and workforces for a single-system collective agreement.

Write to Roshan Fernandez at roshan.fernandez@wsj.com

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May 09, 2025 18:05 ET (22:05 GMT)

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