The truth is UP wants out of everything but the intermodal game. The "merger" is nothing more that a plan to build a coast to coast intermodal railroad. Once/if NS is acquired, UP plans on selling off all the manifest, grain coal and industry work to shortlines. This will allow Vena to cut even deeper. 50%+ of all transportation n maintenance jobs gone.
The promise of jobs for life is horseshite. Even when furloughed you are still technically employed by UP, you still have a "job"
Microman and the rat have no intention nor ability to grow UP
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They have to sell off a lot of routes, how else are they going to pay the $85 billion cost to merge?
How is that 500.000 million dollar lawsuit in Houston going?
@eq so true
@jf thats not co$t the railroad the railroad charged $6 million
@jf No it didn't lol
@gc in 2006 a mile long double stack intermodel train cost $6million to move from Long Beach to New Jersey imagine what that price is today..thats just the straight through price! In 2006
Intermodal has the lowest profit margins and can be very cyclical. The chemical business in Houston is what pays big dollars.
This is the absolute truth
If UP wants it.. Then it’s not good for the employees
That sounds like a good subject for a StraightUP article.
Dont get my hopes U P