Yep.

Reports have been made to the machinist union by the alliance shop superintendent that alliance mechanical and car will be closing there doors come September. Pray for the folks in alliance Nebraska

old site, for bnsf.com here is the archived link from 1996 https://web.archive.org/web/19961030113950/http://www.bnsf.com/

As long as we have "management" and scabs that can't find defects that are detrimental to community safety, we're winning.

Heard rumor of some union chatter from a call tonight that The BNSF is selling or leasing the Coal loop. Anyone else hear anything?

If you’re doing your job and you’re doing it right and you know supervision is letting stuff go that is breaking a federal rule. You should call FRA. Make those FRA inspectors camp in your location and put the heat on the company. Yes, the company... — read more 

Fu-k the bnsf. A bunch of sc-mbags. They treat their employees like sh-t. They cut us down to bare minimum or more. They move their freight slow "to conserve fuel". The average speed on the bnsf railway is 17 mph.

BNSF has shown that it is getting rid of every union job, IMF facilities ran by short lines, shop closure’s everywhere, RJ Corman and wabtec doing maintenance and taking over locations, and doing so by hiring BNSF workers that were at those... — read more 

Union heads were part of this decision, the were present in the meeting that conducted a vote to ensure this happened. All Union leadership was in Washington last month for a meet and greet with company officers, and no longer serve the members. A... — read more 

Union heads were part of this decision, the were present in the meeting that conducted a vote to ensure this happened. All Union leadership was in Washington last month for a meet and greet with company officers, and no longer serve the members. A... — read more 

BNSF Argentine furloughed 15 people. 8 sheet metal workers, 2 electricians, 3 machinists and 2 laborers.

17 labors laid off on 3rd shift .. in Barstow Ca ..

3 apprentice electricians, 1 carded electrician. What remained of our floor pipe filters, 5 pipe filters in maintenance still. Not sure about car side.

Good luck, everyone. This will be a blow for many of us.

Secret one-sided stacked vote being held between corporate, local supervisors, union heads, and FRA. Vote is to implement new BHE inspection, or to eliminate all intermediate inspections outside of Kansas City, Corwith, Chicago, Alliance Nebraska... — read more 

Vehicles and other liabilities are being “scrapped” around the system this week and next. Polishing the books before 6/30, end of 2nd fiscal quarter and in preparation for the sale. Loose lips sink ships. BNSF Railway, one of North America's... — read more 

That is, if you want to run the company into the ground. Crews are already falling off their feet. We must be close to a breaking point when there will be so few of us left that the whole thing will just fall apart.

Last of All three man crews with a brakeman eliminated this month, ready to work boards activated, and company has put out displaced employees will have ability to excercise seniority rights, like people didn’t already know that, but when the company... — read more 

BNSF is a dead end. If you're not spending all your free time looking for another job, you're in for a very rude awakening.

EOC button in waiver coming The manufacturer said the uci buttons aren't reliable.

Been hearing 1st week of July, BNSF is looking to cut in the red river division, but rumors are a mix between mechanical and TY&E. Would make a year since the last furloughs for mechanical, anyone else hearing anything about 2nd quarter cuts. Rumor... — read more 

BMWED filed bad faith lawsuit last week over BNSF downsizing then hiring contractors despite no rail expansion. Waiting for IBEW and IAM to follow due to BNSF taking more units out of service, laying off mechanical, yet contracting labor out. I’m... — read more 

We’re exhausted. If they keep pushing us out, we’re going to reach a point where the sheer workload leads to mistakes. In our line of work, mistakes aren’t a joke. Greed and spineless management can cost lives. On top of all the stress, we’re... — read more 

BNSF management is yet to figure out nobody wants to work for them anymore. Word gets around, and at this point, everyone knows what a mess it is. They keep laying people off but when it's time to fill some much needed positions nobody worth their... — read more 

It's sad that I'm already thinking about the next round, but it is what it is. Does anybody have any idea if we'll get a few months reprieve or if we can expect more cuts already in June (I'm going to assume that we're at least safe for the rest of... — read more 

I love when managers of the company say, get on here give specifics, the specific, names of who, when, how, where, and every detail and the layoff deletes it like wtf, let the information stay, if it’s that damning, it’s like free advertisement for... — read more 

BNSF would not provide information on the number of employees who were laid off, but cuts are believed to have impacted between 140 and 175 workers. https://www.star-telegram.com/news/business/fort-worth/article306024161.html

BNSF putting out request to TY&E to take voluntary layoffs in exchange for paid benefits, it’s a scam. Per payroll any employee who works 1 day in a month will have their healthcare deducted from their paycheck upon returning from layoff status. ... — read more 

More than 200? I'm really sorry, guys. I hope you all land on your feet soon.

With this recent round of huge layoffs, we really need to get a US government review or even EEOC investigation to why nearly all the VP, AVP, Directors are predominantly Indian citizens (with US visas or green card citizenship). For being a critical... — read more 

TS called 2 mandatory meetings on 5/7, one at 9am and one at 10am with different players within TS. Managers and their reports are all over the place with no rhyme or reason. The 10am is none other than hosted by Mr Harri (cut your a-s) Govind and... — read more 

Named Greg Abel as his successor, what y’all think going to happen now?

Dispatchers, train crew, mechanical, all of them, BNSF really has been allowed to take this too far with no repercussions. Forget the whole we signed no strike clauses or the cr-p a judge will not rule in unions favor none sense, if you as union... — read more 

Zones with two Chiefs per 12 hours reducing to one Chief. All ACD jobs being abolished. These employees have dispatching seniority.

Well UP may have finally gave Katie the boot in the tail pipe she needed. Katie has been so focused on trying to get another 27 million as a golden parachute before she is fired under the umbrella of corporate restructuring this next year or when... — read more 

BNSF machinist are supposed to start voting on the new contract tomorrow (4/25). Anyone actually get the voting info in the snail mail yet?

IT contractors have been notified may 9th last day. Contractors make up about 50% or more of all BNSF IT teams.