WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters issued the following news release: (INDEPENDENCE, Ohio) Workers at two railroads represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) of the Teamsters Rail Conference have ratified new contracts. In Michigan, two dozen Teamsters at the Huron and Eastern Railway (HESR) secured a five-year contract increasing their wages by 19.5 percent as well as improving their vacation time. The HESR oper  more