Decades of Support
How We Support Unions & Representatives
01
Member Resources
Practical FELA guides, checklists, and educational materials that can be shared directly with railroad workers and their families.
02
Union Education
Presentations, meetings, and materials tailored to specific crafts, workplace concerns, and member groups.
03
Direct Legal Access
A direct point of contact when a representative believes a member may need experienced FELA counsel.
Resources for Your Members
Provide your members with practical, easy-to-share resources that help them better understand FELA, workplace injury issues, and available next steps. Our materials are designed for railroad workers and their families and can be used in meetings, shared digitally, or distributed as printed handouts.
Educational Support for Locals, Lodges and Member Groups
McEldrew Purtell can provide educational programming and materials for railroad unions, locals, lodges, and member groups. Content can be tailored to the concerns of a specific craft, membership, workplace, or event.
Formats can include:
- Webinars
- Member meetings
- Safety events
- Union conferences
- Lunch-and-learns
- Printed educational materials
- Digital resources
Topics can include:
- What to do after a railroad injury
- FELA basics for members
- Evidence preservation
- Occupational exposure
- Cumulative trauma
- Railroad injury reporting
- Serious injury and wrongful death
- When a member should speak with FELA counsel
Resources Tailored to Your Membership
Not every union or craft needs the same materials. Our railroad team can help develop resources for a specific membership, workplace concern, event, or educational initiative.
Railroad Unions and Members We Serve
Our railroad practice has worked with members, representatives, and families across a range of railroad unions and crafts. Those relationships have developed over decades of work within the rail labor community.
- SMART Transportation Division
- SMART Railroad Mechanical & Engineering Department
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen (BLET)
- Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS)
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)
- American Train Dispatchers Association (ATDA)
- Brotherhood Railway Carmen
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)
- Transport Workers Union (TWU)
- Transportation Communications Union (TCU)
- International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAM)
- International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (IBB)
- National Conference of Firemen & Oilers (NCFO)
- Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division (BMWED-IBT)
- American Railway & Airway Supervisors Association (ARASA)
Union names are provided to identify organizations whose members or representatives our attorneys have worked with and do not imply endorsement unless expressly stated.
For Referring Attorneys
Have a case to refer or need co-counsel? McEldrew Purtell works with attorneys on serious injury and wrongful death matters. Visit our main website to learn about our referral process, co-counsel arrangements, and how we can work together on your client’s case.