Does anyone have insight if UP is relocating headquarters? It's been a rumor for a long time and Vena said "Omaha or wherever headquarters is" on the town hall. I heard they also didn't renew their lease at HDC.

Here's a great article: http://cs.trains.com/trn/b/fred-frailey/archive/2019/10/20/whatever-happened-to-up.aspx

There are better places to work outside of UP. UP treats us like we are just a number. WE GET BETTER TREATMENT AS A CUSTOMER AT THE DMV.... Get out of that toxic place. YOU deserve better and you know it. Start looking.

When UP2020 was rolled out, one of the stated goals was a 30% overall reduction in the UP workforce. Using the 2018 starting workforce number of 41,500, this equates to a final workforce of 29,050 employees. That is a net loss of 12,450 jobs... — read more 

Of course they hop on Z trains and nothing that has work And most are just college grads with no railroad experience beyond their old Thomas the Train set... Typical geniuses

UP has laid off thousands of frontline employees over the past 12 months and this is never reported to media. Everyday u see a large Corp laying off people making headline news yet UP continues to lay off employees "under the radar". Why is the... — read more 

Union Pacific Corp. Chief Financial Officer Robert McKnight said Thursday in a conference call with analysts following third-quarter results, that 2019 workforce levels are expected to be down "slightly more than 10%" from 2018. Given that the... — read more 

We should follow suit with UAW. Look at the sweet contract they got. Just about everything they wanted. Employees still only pay 3% insurance premium. Removed $12k cap on yearly profit sharing. Ratification bonus of $12k, lump Sum back pay, yearly... — read more 

Think it's only Union Pacific feeling the pain? Hardly, check out this list of layoffs and closures from only the past few weeks or so. Here's just a short sample of the closings, shutdowns, and layoffs of the past few weeks. FEW WEEKS! Your... — read more 

Maybe not next...but on the “town hall” Vena just said, “Omaha...or wherever headquarters is.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/union-pacific-profit-misses-estimates-122746681.html

Word on the street is Denver will follow in Kansas citys footsteps. The manager is gone and so are the foreman generals. Nothing to keep Denver around for. The fuel track is being sold to BNSF.

3rd quarter earnings have been released. Operating ratio of 59.5 and 2.22 earnings per diluated share with operating income of 2.2 billion down 2%. They have to increase revenue in 4th quarter by 3.3 billion plus decrease operating ratio to 55 More... — read more 

just curious. seems like UP isn't taking PSR as seriously as they claim. cutting a lot of low level workers but there is still a lot of fat at the top. guess it's not what you know but who you know.

Remember that name. As a matter of fact, research it as soon as you can. Carmen beware, they are now cerified to do fra and aar repairs.

Well I got an up close look at this thing, and was not the least bit impressed. Did they take this thing to earl scheib for a paint job after they sealed it with roofing tar? What a complete waste of resources and time. If thats the best... — read more 

There is evidence that the freight railroads that have implemented PSR or similar strategies see significant increases in their stock value, albeit for a relatively short period of time. What this means for the workforce and the railroad where it's... — read more 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/union-pacific-employees-in-kc-brace-for-layoffs&ved=2ahUKEwixo83ZsaHlAhU1NH0KHTPaB3sQxfQBMAF6BAgHEAQ&usg=AOvVaw1OOOR41Po6Yt97GlT4vQRs&cshid=1571249988157

Does anyone know what year Lance and Jim received their GED? Does anyone know if Jim even made it out of the 7th grade?

Years from now youll be sitting with some friends that you use to work with at UP and you will be laughing hysterically about all of this nonsense, youll laugh till it hurts when you bring up certain supervisors and managers and how they acted, youll... — read more 

if you google union pacific you get two types of news articles. 1)Yards being shut down and people losing their jobs 2)That stupid steam locomotive touring the... — read more 

Word is Kansas city shop folks be bumping into nlr any truth to this.

Ok so ive been researching a little bit on Hunter Harrison. Yes he was a hard a–, a real d–k, but he got the job done. He was all about common sense and to be honest ever since I started working for the RR ive honestly havent seen much of that... — read more 

Why is that?

Word has come down from the upper executive division and from top tier shareholders alike, Venas right hand man will be paying WCT a visit, and from what some highly classified memos were saying is that the place is about to get turned on its head. ... — read more 

A real good buddy of mine, recently returned from Omaha, and stated they will be closing and contracting these yards out to Watco Companies. Lloyd Yard in Spring, Texas and the yard in Beaumont, Texas. Watco will do the switching and industry work... — read more 

https://smart-union.org/news/kansas-sld-criticizes-up-yard-cuts/

It's closed now. Any word on the mechanical shop?

It's important to remember that only 5 years ago, UP really was different. UP hired the best, and cultivated a culture of excellence and high expectations. When they said safety first, they actually meant it (yes, really). You were expected to work... — read more 

https://www.kctv5.com/news/local_news/union-pacific-evaluates-kc-for-streamlining-opportunities/article_70c86276-eba8-11e9-80ba-73bdc3aaf7f0.amp.html

At least it seems like that from my point of view. Now, I don’t want to minimize the fear, the stress and the pain that laid off folks are experiencing. My group has been reduced by half in the last 6 months. All of the laid off people found new jobs... — read more 

All is quiet, UP finally calmed down

https://splinternews.com/the-working-persons-guide-to-the-industry-that-might-ki-1824148959/amp?__twitter_impression=true

The unadulterated toxic rot that is Union Pacific Railroad has been covered in detail on this forum and elsewhere, with the capstone being that UPRR is now rated as the worst company to work for in the United States. Let that sink in. Fast food... — read more 

Sounds like some departments at HQ are going to be outsourced. More layoffs to come????

RIP

Why? What's wrong with domestic?