You guys miss the big picture this is all about $$$. A salaried and benefit person cost too much contractors cheap. Thus is all about Wall Street stock jump. Ownership by internal employees is not and never be valued again. Read hunter Harrison’s... — read more 

Why does somebody keep copying comments and reposting them as topics?

Have heard Managers will be asked to give up seniority or go back to craft. Long pools shortened to lessen hotel stays. Buyout coming all before 10/25. MOPS going to terminal 4 on 3 off..... its all for the betterment of the company. Moved from an... — read more 

Just confirmed with an anonymous EVP. Expectation is to eliminate or demote an 80% minimum of AVPs at Union Pacific. Rationale is that this is an unnecessary layer that adds cost and reduces agility and speed of the organization. Sad outcome for... — read more 

Drop the gov politics they don't control the UPRR business. UPRR is a gov all in it's own. I called them a communist government for a long time. I expected to be a lifer like others in my family. Probably never would I have quit on my own. They... — read more 

For new folks here, there is an "ACTIVE" button right above the first thread - you can use it to see what posts had recent replies. That's all from me. Anyhow, I hope this helps someone. Good luck all...

What I’ve been told is Twin Cities, St Louis, Livonia (prob merge with Houston), Denver (merge with Utah), and Sunset (guess is split between San Antonio and LA SUs). Anyone knows more?

Everyone at UPC is trying to get the facts as to what is going to happen. I'm assuming since senior management is aware this communication is going around and nothing has been addressed as of yet means it's most definitely going to happen. Good luck... — read more 

Most IT contractors s---, we might as well cut them

If they’re serious about this... why not start furloughing agreement people? Half of them abuse Family Medical Leave and are pretty well useless anyway... start cutting UPC clerks and Crew Dispatchers... they make more than some is the non agreement... — read more 

https://twitter.com/TheLayoff/status/1052304673502257152

Layoffs started today!. They let go of Trainers in Marketing and Sales, do not know how many and if they received any type of severance. Really sad.

By fri everyone will know , told today 2,000 Cuts forthcoming within the next two weeks supposedly trigger day is fri pm

Any details?

Anyone have any insight what they are looking at to decide who goes and who stays? Anything specific to M&S is appreciated.

The Law department was pulled into a meeting today and told it will be 30% but broken down into 3 waves... 10% now, 10% mid 2019, and 10% end of 2019... Somebody already asked in the original thread but there were no answers. Can anybody here confirm... — read more 

Effective in January 2019, UP will close its Morrill Nebraska diesel shop. 68 employees will be either transferred to the North Platte Diesel shop or Little Rock Arkansas or furloughed. This was all the local news mentioned. Just a fyi. Not sure what... — read more 

30% reduction in admin groups and some ops support functions is definitely happening. 10% will be by end of month and likely before the earnings release. I'd look for the next 20% to happen faster than previous poster stated. 2 regions and likely at... — read more 

Heard from some folks that UP is planning to move HQ to Texas? Any truth, or would that be the Corporation?

Is this true?

The latest rumors are that the railroad is going down to two Regions instead of three. Also, potentially a 30% reduction in administrative headcount and 10% in non-administrative. I didn't catch whether the non-admin piece was Operating as a whole or... — read more 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/union-pacific-announces-unified-plan-210000710.html Shareholders are excited! Employees should not be.

Sounds like he was forced to retire? These guys usually don’t retire so early unless they have terminal cancer like the former CEO.

Phoenix mechanical all walked off property. Look out western region there’s a head hunter in charge.

Machinist Union getting ready for a Strike! Even if its for a few hours, will cost them Millions. They rejected many Union contracts to save a buck. Now its time to collect. This will cause a chain reaction in late trains and loss of contracts with... — read more 

Does anyone know what departments/union jobs will be cut next? Heard more cuts are coming by February? Does this new "pay by performance " Lance Fritz announced for February, a way of saying managers and employees will lose pay?

Focus on the politics at hand within the UPRR. Drop the gov politics they don't control the UPRR business. UPRR is a gov all in it's own. I called them a communist government for a long time. I expected to be a lifer like others in my family... — read more 

heard from within the executive suite a massive layoff across California is coming. does anyone know what that would mean? the executives were cheering and patting each other on the backs after the planning meetings

I do not want to be laid off. Yet, there are many rumors about potential job cuts here in Omaha.

Isn’t it funny how as soon as they had gotten an extension for having PTC installed and active from the government, they closed at least one shop installing PTC, that I know of? All that extension did was save them a crap ton of money and get them no... — read more 

Does anyone know what union jobs are up next to be cut this year?

Watch the quarterly reports that Lance fritz has its pretty obvious where they are going with the cuts. Another thing to look at is the railroads section 6 notice to the unions. The railroads want to contract as much work our as possible, so I would... — read more 

Does anyone know what union jobs will be cut at UPRR and when?? I thought they were supposed to complete the other 250 workers by September 30th, and clearly that hasn't happened.

I would like to hear from the machinist and electrician technicians that lost their positions for the sake of the all mighty share holders/lance fritz’s Bank account

Does anyone know what union jobs will be cut? Are the other 250 agreement employees being notified at the last minute. Sept 30th is almost here.

Things are being lined up for the next merger.

Do we know if the last round of layoffs is over? It would be nice to be able to relax a little bit, after weeks filled with anticipation and stress. Union Pacific used to be an enjoyable place to work at, but lately, with potential layoffs always... — read more 

I can give a little more insight into departments affected. IT took the biggest hit, >20% reduction across the board. Safety / UP Police also took a giant hit, not sure of the numbers. M&S and Operating may have also been high, but far less than... — read more 

Titles and ages were listed on a sheet of paper in the severance packet for those being laid off involuntarily. As of right now, this is only in the Marketing and Sales Department. Another chaotic situation orchestrated by a severely disconnected... — read more