Topics regarding layoffs at Union Pacific Corp.

Topics regarding layoffs at Union Pacific Corp.

Retirement Tax Refund

When are we ever going to get the rest of our RR Retirement Tax refund we were supposed to get last summer then by the end of Nov.?

Here we go again

So the 1st quarter numbers are coming out soon..so just how many days after the announce their victory (failures) will they take before they start cutting employees. And any guesses to what the magic number going to be for the cuts.

North Platte Mechanical Managers are id--ts

Starting April 1st we now have managers instead of the ARASA craft leading the way. Over 1/2 of the managers don’t have a clue. I have been out here 19 years and this is the worst morale has ever been. On April 10th manager BB pulled a machinists out... — read more 

2019 Results in Proxy Statement

Fritz 15m Vena 5.8 m Avg Board of Directors pay 300k Folks the cuts will just keep on coming only thing slowing them down is Covid-19!!!

1 Man Crew

Surprised they haven't used covid as a means to limit employee contact by having 1 man crews. Probably being written up now.

up doesn't give a rats a-- about you...

Fwd:Union Pacific donates 6,600 masks to Nebraska Medicine https://www.ksnblocal4.com/content/news/Union-Pacific-donates-6600-masks-to-Nebraska-Medicine-569122281.html

So NS stock is doing better then UP

Wonder how the stock holders are handling that little gem. At the moment NS is sitting at $155 and change a share and good ole UP is at $149 and change. And they’ve been implementing the PSR Ponzi scheme recently as well.

Class action

Wtf is our useless union “leadership?” I don’t know about y’all but I’ve been forced into job briefings in groups of 10 or more and forced into areas at my work that were unprotected...,,..and I’m stressed out about it. Very stressed... — read more 

More coachings coming your way.

managers must have at least 30 coachings each month. There's like a ratio of one manager to every worker wow they're going to coach the sh– out of me!

COVID19

What shops/yards has it popped up in, how many people have been put in quarantine from those locations? Share if you can it would be nice to have a number to add to their metrics for them to show just how much they care

The workers are getting frustrated

According to Facebook quite a few employees in Council Bluffs IA are contacting local news stations in Omaha Ne with information about poor working conditions in the yard. Apparently only one bottle of hand sanitizer and instead of cleaning key... — read more 

somebody asked executives at townhall about masks. said if UP isn't going to provide can we use company credit card to buy materials and make?

they probably fired the poor intern that let the question get through. after a lot of talk they said yes so looks like we're going to be getting some homemade masks which is better than nothing. they didn't like that question. they were hoping to... — read more 

Contact White House Easy To Do

I send message if U.P. gets any money for coronavirus they should be required to retain employees. Maybe if we flood them with messages something can be done. Better then doing nothing.

Progress report

Looking at the psr post on the website yesterday all the metrics are at goal but the worker productivity. In our current state of business around the country I fear only more layoffs are in our future. Hopefully the carloadings go up and the managers... — read more 

USPS workers asking for hazard pay

In the meantime the postal service has been "distributing masks, gloves and cleaning and sanitizing products to more than 30,000 locations; adhering to official guidelines regarding social distancing; eliminated a requirement that customers must sign... — read more 

Mso’s

Bring back MSO TO HELP CLEAN UP THE CORONAVIRUS!!!!!!

IAM Union Abolished 12/31/2021

The next union to be abolished will be the IAM by the end of this year. The job of a machinist is nothing more than a parts changer and takes no skill whatsoever. In fact at a lot of points across the system their jobs are being contracted out and at... — read more 

Railroad industry continues to live off the government despite claiming they are a private business and can do whatever they want

Amtrak getting 1 billion in stimulus funds. Some of this will be disbursed to UP in various way such as payments for using their tracks. Amtrak has lost money every year since it started and should be cancelled. The FRA is included in a group... — read more 

We’re Fortunate

9 Million more jobless claims in the past two weeks. That makes UP layoffs .0004% of that. Time to celebrate how fortunate those of us that are working are.

Vena at Jenks Shop today

I've been hearing there will be layoffs here next month. Jim Vena has been here this evening walking around the shop.

Bailey Yard

I read on a facebook trend someone saying they would close Bailey Yard. There is no possible way they would shut that down. We have best numbers in system and very busy working lots OT. Largest yard in system. No UP without NP.

Amazon and Instacart workers are striking nationwide for better protection during COVID-19. IT’S TIME FOR US TO JOIN THEM BROTHERS!

We have no protection other than a bottle of bleach and a wash cloth. No social distancing. Very secretive with the cases of who gets the virus at work. Not notifying other people who may have been around them. People are dying of this thing left... — read more 

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