Anyone know why hiring is up all of a sudden. It’s been slow all year long and now they want people from all backgrounds, even ex-convicts. Does not make sense.
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@f0 I do not disagree with your points made. I am just showing people where they can find the information UP provided to the STB. Take it with a grain of salt but know its probably the polished version of what they plan to do to employees.
There are lots of new faces in my shop. I doubt they will still be here if/when the merger goes through. It’s all to make the trains go until the deal is done and then Wall Street will cut us to the bone again. The new people are all blissfully unaware of the past decade.
Are they actually hiring people or are they just posting jobs that will never really get filled?
@ew I'm not one to argue a valid fact here about the info you found, but I think you're forgetting the source of the info listed on said STB site. If very few jobs or no jobs will be lost, then why are they still eliminating positions? That information was given to the STB by the UP. The UP hasn't been honest with a lot of issues regarding the merger specifics and I honestly don't believe the employee impact exhibit is even remotely truthful. Vena and his team are going to give any phony numbers they can so as to keep the image of the merger as pristine as possible. If or when the merger is approved, more jobs will be lost due to "organizational changes" or some other BS saying Vena can come up with. Jobs for life guarantee is BS and the STB employee impact info is BS too. You believe that info if you want too though! The UP is only sharing the information people want to hear, but they're not disclosing any information of changes that will occur post-merger.
Go on the STB.gov website. Click the red UP-NS merger resources button. Click the July 27, 2026 UP-NS Redesignated Employee Impact Exhibits. They clearly show how many jobs will be lost from each department in exact locations.
I’m in mechanical and they are bringing in anybody that can walk and crawl to include felons and convicts with very little mechanical experience. I think it’s a show for the merger. Once it happens, they will probably let everyone go and stay with the same number of people as before. There is barely enough work for the folks with seniority.
Maybe they finally realized we are understaffed, hahahaha I doubt it. Prob to post fabricated numbers to show the STB HEY Look we are hiring!!
Because Vena is stUPid.
Probably has something to do with insufficient staffing levels at many locations which has been leading to parked trains everywhere. Vena is trying to push this merger through as quickly as possible and questions are being asked about his behavior now because of a threat he made. Everyone knows the UP doesn't have enough people and it's a very safe assumption to say that he needs to get the headcount up before the merger talks happen.
Are they trying to recruit felons again?