BLE Sites, Railroaders helping railroaders:
Division 14 Amtrak/VRE Washington, DC
Division 26 CSXT Richmond, VA
Division 57 Amtrak/MBTA Boston, Massachusetts
Division 71 SEPTA Philadelphia, PA
Division 171 NJ Transit, Hoboken, NJ
Division 226 NS, Newark, NJ
Division 235 CSXT, Conrail/SAA Union City, NJ
Division 333, Union Pacific, South Saint Paul, Minnesota
Division 373, NJ Transit, Trenton, NJ
Division 439/CSX Allston, Mass.
Division 462 BNSF, Arkansas City, Kansas
Division 497 PATH
Division 532 CSX Richmond, VA
Division 752 Amtrak, Albany, NY
Division 834 Union Pacific, Longview, Texas (new 2/1/08)

National Division Cleveland, Ohio
National Legislative Office for the BLE&T Washington, D.C.
National Association of State Legislative Board Chairmen BLE&T Teamsters Rail Conference
Check out their research page. Tons of interesting stuff.
General Committee of Adjustment New Jersey Transit (New stuff added 8/27/06)
General Committee of Adjustment Bylaws now on line!
General Committee of Adjustment Amtrak
General Committee of Adjustment PATH
New Jersey State Legislative Board
National Legislative Board - Canada
Teamsters Rail Conference
"Unofficial" BLET web site. Not ours but still lots of good information here
 

Government Sites:
Bureau of Labor Statistics: All kinds of interesting stuff about labor in America.
Congressional Email Directory
Department of Labor     
       Family Medical Leave Downloads (New 9/5/06)
        Family Medical Leave Act Form (PDF File)
        FMLA Fact Sheet  (Printer Friendly Form)
Department of Transportation
Downloadable IRS forms
Federal Railway Administration  Learn about the rules and regulations under which you work.
FirstGov - A link between the government and the people
National Labor Relations Board
National Transportation Safety Board - NTSB
Railroad Retirement Board: Learn about your benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act.
Surface Transportation Board
Thomas (library of Congress) Legislative Information on the Internet. Find out how bills in the Senate and House are doing.
Title 45 - US code for railroad labor laws
U.S. Senate
U.S. House of Representatives
Weather.com Get your local area forecast.
White House

Unions:
AFL-CIO Home Page
Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
BMWE Grand Lodge
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers
MT Acre A different take on what the Metro North Union is all about
TCU, Brotherhood Railway Carmen Division
Teamsters for a Democratic Union
The Transportation Trades Division of the AFL-CIO
TWU Local 100 NYC Subway and Bus Union
 

New Jersey Transit employees come from a number of diversified railroads.
Check out their sordid past:
Burlington Northern
Conrail
CSX
Delaware and Hudson
Erie Lackawanna 
Grand Trunk Western
Illinois Central
Lackawanna Terminal Railway
New Jersey Transit
Norfolk Southern
Penn Central
Pennsylvania
Reading
Santa Fe

Railroad related Sites:
Cyberspace World Railroad - A web site where you will find links to all railroads
FELA - summary  Federal Employers Liability Act
Operation Lifesaver: Helping prevent railroad related accidents.
Railserve - Over 1500 railroad related links, search engine, forums, and more
Unofficial NJ Transit Home Page - Lots of information about New Jersey Transit and the historic Hoboken Terminal

NORAC Rule 3 Correct Time: "Employees whose duties are affected by the Timetable must use a reliable watch." Never miss lunch again! Set your watch now!

Web pages for information:
Are they dead or alive? Dead or Alive helps settle those nagging questions with info on thousands of well-known people ...or former people.
Are you a real engineer? Then you want stuff for free!
Ask Jeeves!  Want to know the answer to every question (well, almost every question)?
Cyber Sanctum - A list of very interesting web sites
FactCheck.org  and PolitiFact.com -  Keeping the politicians honest (as if THAT were possible!) (Added 9/9/07)
Gethuman: The gethuman project is a consumer movement to improve the quality of phone support in the US. This free website is run by volunteers and is powered by over one million consumers who demand high quality phone support from the companies that they use.
Snopes.com busts the Urban legend. Find out for sure if that story is true or false.
The CIA World Factbook. Everything you ever wanted to know about just about any country in the world.
The Dilbert Zone Ever wonder what it would be like to work in an office?
Wall-O-Shame:  Just when you think you've seen it all!
 

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