BNSF upper management meeting today outlined furloughs, layoffs, and lost revenue including coal contracts and vehicle market slow down due to tariffs. Stellantis just closed down plant In Mexico serviced by BNSF at Eagle Pass. With a large shares of Berk stock focused in foreign market and intermodal traffic from China. The inevitable is coming within the next month, how deep the cuts are going to be was the primary focus.
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Well it’s Monday let’s see what chaos BNSF has in store for the peasants, been a lot of rumors over the weekend, we will see what pans out. On a funny note BNSF management performing ops testing via cameras over stretching exercises, got to love the down times where BNSF hyper focuses on petty cr-p rather than actually moving freight
Pearland, Tx took over by RJ Corman on Monday, and Somerville loses 4 jobs on Saturday.
BNSF Allouez Taconite Facility will be laid off effective Saturday, according to the Transportation Communication Union.
Union spokespeople say 31 out of 62 employees will be laid off at the Superior facility.
I want to know the truth about coal contracts, are they renewing or ignoring. Trump daddy is bringing coal back but doing stupid sh-t on the coal loop.
Heard union leadership already notified that sweetwater is being shut down, conductors and engineers will have to exercise their seniority or be furloughed. Were told to not inform their members until day of shutdown taking effect, but they have a date set.
I guess that’s the reason behind the whole push for 16 digit password changes before they fired the folks that you call into if you didn’t.
Yall thought it was a game, Sweetwater TYE yard being closed this week, all crew members being displaced
IT contractors have been notified may 9th last day. Contractors make up about 50% or more of all BNSF IT teams.
If eagle pass traffic is taking a hit Teague and San Antonio conductor/engineers better start prepping for their boards to be cut down and TYE staff to be sent home, they already cut mechanical from those locations, following the bouncing ball, scabbing out to RJ Corman or TP , or even a sell off to UP or FXE as those locations are surrounded by UP rail, might be a natural chain of events already in the works. BNSF will utilize its tired excuse of availability or reduced rail freight as its excuse, realigning based on the needs of the company, but we all know thats by their own design and they created the design to appear like they had reduced freight to justify furloughs, layoffs, and shop closures.
They have been picking off managers, and realigning management since last October, overtime for shops is starting to be cut back again, and jobs that were awarded with potential start dates, are now being frozen. All the signs are showing the same way the were last March, BNSF priming itself to force any new hires out the door or back to original crafts, and then the real cuts will come. It’s foreseeable by the end of April to June, BNSF is most likely going to cut for the summer, then reevaluate for “peak” season that’s been non existent the last few years. Buckle up, good ol Katie making decisions the support foreign markets at the expense of BNSF employees and the railroad as a whole. Layoffs on the horizon are inevitable.
I’ve heard this like 7 months ago that they are shutting down shops and laying off people. Nothing ever happened. Now, it’s like, when are they doing it. I want someone that knows to say something. I Just hope you live somewhere cheap if anything happens. Katie is really messing up the coal contracts.
Might be the reason staff auditors have been going around various shops and terminals in southwest division, gathering numbers in advance