Our Objective

The object and purpose of N.A.R.V.R.E, organized as a nonprofit corporation, shall be and is exclusively

• For educational, scientific, literary and professional purposes of studying, promoting, and disseminating the philosophy and principles underlying the legislative process in order to further the growing interest in the continuance of Public Law #162 enacted by the 75th Congress of The United States of America on June 24, 1937, commonly referred to as the Railroad Retirement Act;
• To bring into closer cooperation the railway employees, both active and retired, of the country;
• To inculcate and uphold the general principles necessary to protect the standard of living for all current and former railway employees, and to lend moral aid and strength to the activities of its members, the Standard Railroad Labor Organizations, senior citizens groups and other organizations, who are promoting the general welfare of retired people in The United States of America;
• All within the meaning of Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Currently NARVRE is composed of 146 units located throughout the United States with membership in 48 states. The association is governed by by-laws which provide for the election of National Officers at a biennial convention held on even numbered years by delegates representing all units of NARVRE.

NARVRE Works to Improve Railway Worker and Spouse Benefits

NARVRE had been working for a number of years to get something done to improve the benefits for spouses of the Railway worker. Upon the death of railway person the spouses retirement was drastically cut. Several years later NARVRE met with Rail Labor and Rail Management, to add to the bill for working railroaders to retire at 60 with 30 years of service. It took until December 21, 2001 to get this bill passed and signed by the President.
NARVRE members sent 100,000 letters every week plus thousands of calls, emails to get this bill passed into law.