Thread regarding BNSF Railway layoffs

I love my job!

Working harder in this industry never mattered because it’s seniority based, the idea that statement was even made says this post was made by a supervisor brown nosing his way to the next position to get cut. So the actual workers cut waste associated with the wasted time listening to a su-k a$$ supervisor trying to be the next corporate fluffer. Flexible as in spending years learning how to do your job safely and efficiently, to be cut and told go be a newbie in a new craft not knowing anything. Forget the amount of flexible spending utilized in training people on how to inspect cars, locomotives, tracks, etc, for the railroad to say sc--w that money we don’t need to keep people working who have spent countless hours on flexible schedules away from family learning how to do a job correctly, just to say we can have laborer sign an inspection card and it means the same thing as stuff actually being fixed and inspected. Cards signed it must have been done. Speaking constructively means you will constructively be ignored based on the needs and wants of the company, so constructively up yours, worry about you and quit trying to get on here and convince the hard working people that you, the op, are doing anything but running your sausage gobbler about what real workers and craft members should do based on overwhelming evidence gathered over about 100 years that the company truly doesn’t care about it’s people anymore, that shareholder profits are its only driving factor regardless of what it does to the customers, the people that still have a job, or the communities the railroad decimates or takes advantage of, at least until they lose massive litigation and contracts, then magically it’s the workers fault and not the corporate decision makers. Jacka$$

It no longer matters, several members in congress are passing a bill the Unified Railway Act, that will require railroad workers too have minimum 12.5 hours undisturbed rest and after 5 starts minimum 18 hours off before returning to work. These railroads have made fist over fist profit, greed beyond measure, and now they will either comply or be taxed. It no longer matters, for years they spend billions of dollars trying to hire and fire. Most of these managers can barely read and write. Record breaking profits and yet they still do the craziest things, each year they pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits and still make breaking profits, most of these managers cannot even pass the test, but want to tell us how to work safe. Billions of dollars on this PTC and now laws will be put in place to protect the families and the towns. In 2025, you will see a bloodshed of managers being terminated left and right. The board will not be able to buy the new administration. They proposed plans for the next 30 years and little do they know it want even to happen. They will never make a railroad into a corporation; they have been trying to do these for the last 40 years and these lawsuits just keep coming.... UPS just settled a 286-million-dollar lawsuit for discrimination for one person. The threats, they make, the rushing, and all of that ends up in lawsuits and managers being fired so it does not matter. Every day railroaders are getting letters from law firms, several law firms are gearing up a class action lawsuit, while these executives continue to play pin the tail on the donkey. We can't even make this stuff up, but it's too funny that they think these policies AND attendance policy will work. It does not matter what law firm they counseled with because whatever firm it is, these attorneys also cannot even read and write. Guys don't let them bully you these railroads are literally under investigation up to and including the executive mgmt. and even the managers. Go get some sleep. Lastly, no saying a NAME, one class action settled a 90 million lawsuit because they refused to hire railroaders over 45, and blank blank settled a 129 million lawsuit for not hiring a 363 lb. person but later hired a 410 lb. manager. WE CAN'T EVEN MAKE THIS STUFF UP.

Delusional

Company plants at it again. The more you try to change the narrative the more people notice.
Gotta control everything… even what people think. You guys are pathetic.

A 31 or better talking, where is my union rep?, oh yea, they don't care.

Couldn’t agree more! UP can kick someone else’s butt!! We are in it to win it!! #GoBNSF #workhard #worksafe

This is id--tic. We have contracts that are supposed to protect our scope of work to keep things our jobs from being done by others for less money.

Look at the laborers and how they’ve taken over a lot of the other craft work. You can’t tell me there’s any other reason other than it’s cheaper to pay a laborer than a machinist or pipefitter.

Your value and what you know doesn’t matter at all when it comes to being cut. If your number is pulled, you’re gone.

The CMO’s are the people largely involved in making these cuts. They have conversations behind the scenes with labor relations and other entities to ensure they don’t have to pay labor protection should these cuts happen. To think they truly have our best interest in mind is wishful thinking at best. The board gets what the board wants, and most likely it’s going to take a government intervention to make things trend the other way.
Corporate greed is ki-ling this industry, and there’s no focus on true growth.