I just started with UP 3 years ago, im about to make the biggest financial decision of my life and im doing it because I have been promised a job for life!!!!
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"Jobs for life"? Yeah, and I thought my marriage was for life to. I should have saw it coming, but I was to busy rolling down these steel rails tryin to build a life that was crumbling right before my eyes. He-l, maybe I knew it all along. Funny thing is, I can still smell her perfume whenever I walk into my one bedroom apartment, and for a moment it feels like life was how it use to be, but it isnt, and ive got to love with that..... anyway what were we talkin about?
Hold your horses pilgrim! This is if and when the merger is pushed through. Also, may be a job for life just not in the same town for life.
Vena furloughed me in 2020 and I haven’t been recalled. Will I get my job back with the Jobs for Life agreement?
@s6 Your advise is good and wise. However, in the real world it doesn’t work that way even if you try. For example, craft’s don’t do their own work and let other crafts do their own as well. Instead the unions are willing to do other peoples work just to avoid the backlash from management for refusing. That’s not union solidarity. I personally had the machinist local chairman at my location tell me “We’re going to take all of the work we can get, it doesn’t matter what it is” when I was questioning him about doing electrician work.
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Tough luck.
No job is safe. The day you hire out EVERYONE tells you to SAVE YOUR MONEY.
Do everything that your job requires and let the other crafts do thier job.
Do it safe, don't lie, be on time, and email or call your union rep before bumping arrives so you know what to expect. Go to union meetings when you can and always improve yourself, free college courses, health benefits, etc ...
The only way to secure a job for life is to become self employed in a field that is recession proof. Even this requires being able to change and adapt with new technology, new regulation, and being reputable and skilled. Anyone who chooses to be an employee is expendable when hard times come, whether they work for a mom and pop operation or a fortune 500 company. As a retired railroader myself, most of the years were spent being concerned with building enough seniority to weather the inevitable layoffs that occur, which were no fun when the axe fell on me. And it took over 30 years until I felt truly comfortable that a layoff would not reach me again. Uncertainty is the life of a railroader for sure. Looking back, it was all worth the aggravation and stress, because RR retirement is sweet.
Yep ! Jobs for life ..Now if they make work life so unbearable you quit , write you up into nonexistent or better yet offer a job in Goobersville Nebraska. I guess that would be a Job for Life ? I would like to think “SMART “ along with other unions would have legal binding agreements. The contract just ratified for 5yrs had no such binding agreement. NS is salivating at the mouth for a merger maybe jobs for life protection should have been included.
Gotta ask yourself, What Would Vena Do? WWVD
What about the 10,000 people cut already. Where’s there jobs for life?
Key word to focus on is AFTER, the merger. What happens between now and then is the real question you should be asking yourself, so hold off on that Boat for now little man.