Jeremy “Jobs for Life” tells NS student conductors “ They have a “Career not a JOB “… I wonder if he told that to the current UP employees being furloughed ? How many folks with years of experience lost their jobs to PSR ? NS employees have no idea... — read more 

To offload all switch yards to short lines via leasing of their yards. If you switch or work on low horse power your job is at risk.

Lost 10 in mechanical, shut the yard down Rips are only a temporary hold until the contractor shops are ready. Company Dirt bags don't care where you are it's not a safe job get out if you can.

Furloughs happens yesterday afternoon. 10/27/2025 at San Antonio mechanical. 10 machinist 1 electrician

UPRR lobbying https://www.quiverquant.com/news/Lobbying+Update%3A+%2460%2C000+of+UNION+PACIFIC+RAILROAD+COMPANY+lobbying+was+just+disclosed

how many jobs were lost in San Antonio? Did Carmen get cut there as well?

The dum dums at SMART are telling their people this will be good for them. LOL! I guess bringing PSR to Norfolk and scrapping switch yards and such will be great for everyone.

Pacific Rail Service, is a intermodal contractor that's bringing their locomotives on the property to have their Scabby H6 employees switch the ramps and yard like East LA. Let the Mexicans run across the border with trains at Eagle Pass, and they... — read more 

About Union Pacific Corp.: The Union Pacific Railroad is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans (as of 2016). The Union Pacific Railroad system is the largest in... — read more 

Has anyone else noticed a trend that if a craft files a time claim and win, that one of the members of that craft gets fired?

Word on the street is they want more critical right after the contract has been settled and the job security for no layoffs per merger, but they need their quotas for criticals that just went up ! Again dealing with this company there always a get... — read more 

I am a reporter in Wyoming working on a story about the recent carmen layoffs in Green River Wyoming. If that is you, I would love to hear your behind the scenes take, at Renee@CowboyStateDaily.com.

What's the local deals with this merger?

If UP takes over NS wonder how many shops will be closed.

Well, if I had to guess, theft is the railroads biggest problem in these two cities, I am sure many others as well. The praise makes for a good... — read more 

Word on the street is something major went down in Houston mechanical today. Can any one confirm? Word is they have no locomotives to work on and some announcement went out but can’t get any details.

Perhaps they had 2nd thoughts about who they demanded to be CEO. https://www.quiverquant.com/news/New+Analyst+Forecast%3A+%24UNP+Given+%24251.0+Price+Target

Several shop will be closed once UP takes over NS. Up only cares about getting to the coast. Good bye Cincinnati.

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Major layoffs coming in the car and mechanical departments. Most car jobs will be eliminated, and TCI jobs will be put in their place. Major yards like north Platte and Kansas will still facilitate car repair with union workers, but smaller outlying... — read more 

Being told by numerous people that this survey is mandatory. Any truth to that? Why would the UP force people to take a survey about employee engagement? Forcing people to do a survey about "engagement" isn't really a good way to get people... — read more 

How does seniority work at up is your seniority good system wide or only at location hired.

8 Electricians furloughed at Albina and Salt Lake with option to relocate. More smaller shops being looked at for cuts its not over.

UP just furloughed all the Carmen and closed down the RIP Track. 17 Carmen. UP just posted TCI jobs in Rock Springs.

Just got rid of nearly everyone in salt lake and Ogden. They’re putting the 4 electricians that are left in a road truck and the same with machinists.

Rumor is the FRA is going to allow for less frequent signal inspections. Crossings will go from monthly to quarterly inspection intervals. Yes this would free up time for signal maintainers to work supporting maintenance of way which is very much... — read more 

The vast majority in my union that I ask says they voted no, but our contract was supposedly ratified 54% yes. I do not understand why did so many union members ‘supposedly’ vote yes to contracts that did not at least equal the previous one? What... — read more 

Another garbage article on the importance of business integrity. The how does not matter with this company. If it did, I wouldn't be told by my managers to lie on my work order reporting on a daily basis. In order to avoid taking hits on their ISP... — read more 

Here's the truth and not the fluff. Vena wants the merger in the hopes of driving up the stock price. It's a last ditch effort to cover his failure. He promised stock prices that he could never hope to reach. He's shown that he can't actually run... — read more 

Maybe we are made for each other considering we both just had major derailments ... Happy acquisitioning

Did Norfolk Southern ever implement PSR? If they haven’t, then it’s a clean slate for Vena to gut everything they had like he has at UP. Things like cutting about 25% of the workforce, closing shops and yards, increasing work loads on those... — read more 

Until my union does something to address the company forcing overtime and requiring doctors notes for a sick day I’ll be voting no on my contract. My union is such a joke now! Someone needs to hold their feet to the fire and make them do their job!... — read more 

Does anyone have any solid information about why the two big railroads in Houston Texas does not want to invest any money or substantial resources to rebuild shops and why they want everyone on maps program? I understand that the more we produce... — read more 

At NS your seniority is at your point. I can't leave Chattanooga and take my seniority to Birmingham. I've heard that UP has a system wide seniority for Carmen.

2 crafts will no longer be around. The merger has it's good and better.

If the merger with Norfolk Southern really goes through, just imagine for a moment how many people they will cut from both companies under the guise of redundancy, overlap, and who knows what else. I don't think anybody will be safe when or if the... — read more 

That is the only reason these thieves are looking to buy other railroads.

Union Pacific is showing interest in Norfolk Southern is because we really want CSX and know that if we show interest in Norfolk Southern Berkshire Hathaway will out bid us just like they did for Santa Fe Pacific. See Below. 👇 June 1994: BN and... — read more 

Can anyone tell me how many Carmen there are at jenks locomotive shop and how many are in the back shop?

Berk Hath has deep pockets but the railroad is out to be a bad asset as poor management and a weak workforce cripple the once profitable rr. Dont let them fool you into thinking they got it all together. A merger may smoke the competition out of the... — read more