The latest circulating rumor - the board is tired of paying all of the severance packages. The company doesn’t necessarily have to give people a reason why they are being cut, but doesn’t the severance help buffer the lawsuits? I would assume they... — read more
It’s very revealing...when the tide starts to go out you can always tell who is skinny dipping!!!
I see a lot of posts here that seem to be designed to provoke a reaction and a reply. It’s almost as if people are desperate and starved for information but are too proud to just ask instead of posting false information in search of the response they... — read more
Sometime in December.....
December 1st, West Colton will be shut down completely. The hump is currently being modified to connect with the mainline so the receiving yard Can be used as a siding and staging area. Crews from engineering and track department have been... — read more
December 1st confirmed
December 1st, West Colton will be shut down completely. The hump is currently being modified to connect with the mainline so the receiving yard Can be used as a siding and staging area. Crews from engineering and track department have been... — read more
Jenks
Jenks is coming to a fork in the road, which way will the company sway. Shut it down or put money into it and add more jobs. To be continued...... Announcement in Dec.
All this stock trading legal ?.
Is all this insider stock trading and inflating the $ vale of UP stock legal ? Seems the SEC (securities and exchange comission ) might help if some complaints were turned in to them
Thanos in Houston
Thanos (Jim Vena) allegedly in Houston today, anyone hear him snap?!?
Uion Pacific Layoffs 2020
Is this going to be an interesting year as it relates to Uion Pacific Layoffs 2020? Any news or rumors?
How many people have you convinced to avoid UP?
Just today I met two people through a mutual friend that were interested in working for UP. They both had office jobs, daylight hours and Monday through Friday schedule but wanted to “make more money”. I told them just a few details about Union... — read more
The Last Round
One of the last major phases of PSR is the reduction of management. It happens after they get a handle on operations and how everything flows with the reductions. In the recent months UP has been making some ARASA supervising employees non agreement... — read more
Does anyone have real numbers of how many employees the up has?
For example. Machinist? Electrician? Mso? Carmen? Conductors? Signal? Etc etc etc
Two year PSR for CSX. One year for UP
CSX Corp. has labored over more than two years to transform its operations and the changes are starting to show in its results, CEO Jim Foote told CNBC on Wednesday. The railroad company installed a precision scheduled railroading strategy in its... — read more
Halcon taking over houston limos
Just found out from a limo driver And limo dispatcher that their bosses Told them their contract was up and halcon was taking over. If you look up halcon this company does everything including switching operations.
CSX web home page
We have been seeing the CSX home web page on UP train crew computers. What's up with that ? Anybody been seeing that ?
Another outsider
Looks like the brought in another leader for the dispatching center! Years of running the program from the inside, watch this one do wonderful things! Cuts for everyone!
One year done.
Last November, the Monday after Thanksgiving, we first tasted a mechanical lay-off at FTW. 26 walked off without warning after we were told there were likely no layoffs coming. I lasted until the last round. Just wanted to say “Happy Anniversary” and... — read more
Turkey Lurkey Doo
How about we all donate our Turkeys to the co workers who were furloughed. Lets show the true meaning of brotherhood.
Executive Salaries
https://www1.salary.com/UNION-PACIFIC-CORP-Executive-Salaries.html
Stockton yard layoffs!
November 21st is the date , yard will be close due to low productivity and bad management! Time to update your resume and look for another job!
Nov 21st
Doomsday........so I hear
No more yard taxi .
They cancelled the depot assigned yard taxi transport vans on 11/10/19 for the Tucumcari sub.. Had a crew wait over 1 hour for the road driver taxi to arrive to take the train crew to East end of the rr yard , so they could get on the train and go... — read more
Thanksgiving Turkey
Can the fired foreman from North Platte still pick up a Thanksgiving turkey? Its going to be a very merry Christmas as well. Happy holidays to all. Plan on running full force.
Houston Mechanical
Is not looking good. VP Big Tom is targeting Houston for a shutdown. Apparently because it has too many people and because it is in close proximity to other shops in the area. Any words on this.
as of November 10, CEO's approval rating is at a new low at 10% on Glassdoor
this means we can now officially say 9 out of 10 UP employees don't approve of the CEO or the direction the company is going. I did see one new five star review from November 05 from an "AVP in Omaha". At least they're being honest when leaving... — read more
Only inexpensive tear away safety vests.
They told us they were only going to buy the basic tear away safety vests now. They won't buy us the reflective striped tee shirts or winter jackets any longer. What a way to get creative and save a few dollars.
Any figures on how much this steam program is costing? And what's the point?
Just curious how much UP is spending on the big boy restoration and all these tours across the country? Also, what's the point? Is it to just counteract the negative publicity from all the layoffs? how long are they going to keep this up? Hard to... — read more
IT'S HERE!
Big Boy, including the Bush loco is sitting in Palestine Yard as we speak. Practically the whole of downtown was inaccessible due to the train nuts. The steam locomotive blew two puffs to congratulate the few shop employees left in the shop. What a... — read more
The Last Stand
It was about four months ago I was furloughed from UP. They say there are seven stages of death with the last being acceptance and the first denial. I learned the hard way its almost the same when you lose your job. I kept asking myself why this... — read more
Clark Griswold
I better be getting a big bonus this year. With all of these cut sure is hard to stay jolly.
Waiting on The BIG BOY distraction
So the big boy will be in NLR next week to draw attention away from the fiasco that is PSR and to distract the fact that they are going to lay-off before Christmas once again maybe even before Thanksgiving (so they won’t have to give out as many... — read more
"Union Pacific values safety above all else, and our employees understand we will not sacrifice the well-being of our team for productivity. "
Lol wut? I love this quote. Who are these mysterious employees that understand that? They exist only in the mind of the UP spokesman. The UP PR machine working on overdrive. I guess if you can't get your ceo rating above 11% or the company rating... — read more
The BUDDY ZONE
You want to fix problems, you don't need psr. You can be the most important person at a location, screw sh*t up daily, cost the company money due to your short comings, be dumb as hell, how you ask?? Simple who is your family. And don't worry, they... — read more
Bairds Invester conference today VENA
He stated at least two more yrs before PSR LEVELS OUT. He further stated substantial changes will occur thru 2020, 2021 will be harder to find chAnges. So folks TEY AND ADM MGRS ETC ITS NOT OVER ROVER STAY TUNED
I noticed two guys...
Two guys were walking with their tails between their legs. It was then that I realized that one was the guy that suggested everyone sell their stock $14/share ago like he did.. and the other guy followed his suggestion.
Facts!!!
Just heard from the top guys that something is going to happen!! Heard a rumor and whispering of other rumors that something is definitely gonna happen.
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https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/union-members-hope-demonstration-brings-attention-to-union-pacific-layoffs