Brotherhood Railway Carmen Division
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TCU Lodge 6760
Lodge 6760 Officers

Michael Bleser, President

Robert Reisinger, Vice President

Kevin J. Hite, Recording Secretary

Kevin J. HIte, Financial Secretary-Treasurer

Shawn Fensler, Board of Trustees Chairman

Ben Melton, Board of Trustees Member

Michael R. Fisher, Board of Trustees Member

Kevin D. Mitchell, Local Chairman - Delegate

Jerry Kinser, Alternate Delegate

Michael Bleser, Local Protective Committee Secretary-
Vice Local Chairman At Large

Jerry Kinser, Vice Local Chairman - Columbus

Donald Roe, Vice Local Chairman - Portsmouth

Gene Wagner, Vice Local Chairman - Huntingburg

Kevin Hite, Vice Local Chairman - Fort Wayne

Jason Sabastian, Vice Local Chairman - Cincinnati

Jim Rice, Vice Local Chairman - Danville

Dustin McQuillen, Vice Local Chairman - Louisville

Chris Garrison, Vice Local Chairman, Road & Rail - Roanoke

Dave Sorrel, Sergeant At Arms

Eric Kratzer, Outer Guard

Greg Gillum, Inner Guard

Jerry Blair, Chaplain

Phil Amadon, Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Council Representative

Steven Pequignot, Webmaster

Lodge officers are elected to three-year terms by the members they represent. Elected officers assumed their respective offices January 1, 2011, and were installed at the January 2011 meeting. Appointed officers assumed their offices at the January 2011 meeting. The next election will be December, 2013.

Lodge 6760 represents members in the Mechanical Department on Norfolk Southern Railway Company, employed at Fort Wayne, Muncie & Huntingburg, Indiana; Detroit and Milan, Michigan; Montpelier, Columbus, Cincinnati & Portsmouth, Ohio; Louisville, Danville, Lexington & Ludlow, Kentucky. The Lodge also has jurisdictional rights on Norfolk Southern at Indianapolis, Tipton, Frankfort, Peru, Argos, South Bend, Indiana; and Lima, Ohio. These members have contract rights under the Norfolk Southern-BRC controlling agreement which became effective January 1, 2003. Fort Wayne Lodge was a member of the Nickel Plate Joint Protective Board No. 350 from 1937 until April 1992, when the Board was merged into the Finley Lines Joint Protective Board No. 200, which changed its name on May 1, 2000, to the Norfolk Southern Joint Protective Board No. 200. At the 40th Convention in 2005, Joint Protective Board No. 200 voted to surrender its Charter and turn over its $1.2 million treasury to the Grand Lodge. Since then Lodge 6760 has been a stand alone lodge, not affiliated with any Joint Protective Board.

On April 1, 2000, former locals at Cincinnati, Columbus Portsmouth, Detroit, Huntingburg, Louisville and Danville all consolidated with Fort Wayne Lodge. This action by the Grand Lodge created the largest lodge in the Carmen Division representing Norfolk Southern employees. Since then, the lodge has grown as more jobs have been created within the Lodge's jurisdiction.

In 2011, members of the former local at Marion, Ohio, employed by Union Tank Car Company, along with members from the former local at Roanoke, Indiana, employed by Road and Rail Services merged into Lodge 6760.


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Published by TCU Lodge 6760
Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, October 24, 1996
Revised December 23, 2011
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