Thread regarding BNSF Railway layoffs

Just OP checking in, June it is. BNSF hit squad rides again, be sure to post your numbers and see what the math adds up to. Right after a presidential debate that had a terrible showing for Biden, shows who this company was backing, and when they realize he’s going to lose in November now, BNSF starts cutting. Go figure, prayers to all you guys that get hit today, I wish I had been wrong.

More layoffs are being announced by BNSF Railway as we speak... Corporate raiding at its finest, assisted by your fine Union Union leadership

What do you know management changes and retirements announced today…I guess we will all get our answers soon enough

1. 3 billion dollar profit in the 4th quarter of 2023 and still furloughed, if you think any FLS or sup can get on here and sweeten that up with some company propaganda, like don’t believe anything you know BNSF has already done after making 1.3 billion in profits in one quarter alone, keep telling yourself it isn’t coming, everyone else knows it’s just a matter of when and what the final total number will be.

https://mybizdaily.com/bnsf-layoffs-2024. Going to leave this here for anyone in doubt if more layoffs aren’t coming

The layoff deleting post for BNSF

Damage control… layoff.com was on point in the past!

So whose playing squares for the day of furloughs in June or July

That’s ok I started laying down on them. You wanna make units?…too bad pay me more and stop taking all the tiny benefits we have away from the job. Until then you can take your lies and shove them up your butt

I have no doubt there is truth to this. It's an election year. They do mass furloughs every 4 yrs. Look at thier history. Last election they said they had finished. And Bo-m JULY hit and let bunch of mechanical go.

Jeff woods! Where you at you reading this?

Talking Points: Speculation about potential BNSF layoffs untrue
Operations supervisors,
The following are talking points that may help you in your daily conversations with team members who may have questions or concerns after seeing a recent social media post that inaccurately speculated on the potential for future layoffs:
• BNSF is aware of a false and misleading post circulating on social media that claims we are planning to lay off 1,600 employees in June. This is completely untrue and has no basis in fact, nor was there a meeting in Fort Worth to discuss this matter.
• We value our employees and their contributions to our company, and we are committed to providing them with fair and competitive compensation and benefits. BNSF has no intention of avoiding its contractual obligations or depriving employees of their earned vacation time.
• As always, we continually evaluate our operations and will adjust our resources to meet the needs of our customers and the market, but we do so in a responsible and transparent manner.
• We urge our employees to disregard this false and irresponsible post and rely on official sources of information from BNSF.

I just want to see some more bullet talking points by a company mouthpiece thats says hey peasants sorry we leaked the truth once, we are d-mbasses, but we are still furloughing you out of company interests because we su-ked at running a billion dollar company for the last 10 years or so, full transparency, except when we aren’t being transparent. You know like, ha no biggie just come to us next time because you know how much we have lied to you in the past, well just act like we are telling you the truth even though we are not, workers really aren’t that important anyway, its us failed leaders that really give this company what it needs anyway, like furloughs, like who doesn’t enjoy a good furlough. As always yours truly K T Farmer, please stop in for family appreciation day, you know if we actually are still doing that, not that we care, but its good optics ya know, cant miss out on a good photo op to pretend like we care. We will put it out in a non furloughed employee memo, just to keep it official

Pretty much clear now that corporate BNSF in Fort Worth, CMOs and specific company officers such as Solomons, Demond Dortch, Bruno Soto, Darnell, Bobby Burnau, Dave Moreno, Edmundo Rodriguez and a few others colluded with each other to sabotage BNSF as a company in order to manipulate numbers and purposefully shrink BNSF as a company with the intention to increase their own annual bonuses. They did so by purposefully reducing freight, implementing failed programs throughout their departments, and micromanaging employees through artificially created camera operations testing quotas in order to purposefully deter workers from completing tasks, which is why they intentionally roll camera footage back to punish workers for things that have already happened well in the past not as a deterrent for safety purposes but as a defense of their failed leadership in the event they continue to fail at their jobs, because injuries have gone up and morale has declined since their appointments, and based on their own statistics freight has dropped along with the company’s profits. They manipulate gray areas of policy to do so after the fact, highlighting that nothing they do is for safety as they say. According to their own statistics and programs they implemented, injuries have began to rise to levels not seen in over a decade. Every-time any company has ever allowed individuals like these to run things and implement stupid and ideological insignificant programs for self gratification and enrichment in attempt to create an artificial dip in profits to justify furloughing workers and boosting annual bonuses, the company itself was either forced into bankruptcy in order realign its business model, or sold to recoup the cost of such failures brought on for the sole purpose of self enrichment at the expense of the company as a whole. Pretty much seems like Katie Farmer cosigned off on the plan along with the realignment of craft jobs throughout the system to be taken over by laborers who had no training or willingness to take on the responsibilities of safely inspecting or maintaining locomotives, again to create an artificial dip, or to purposely create an environment ripe for mechanical failure or accidents to occur similar to that of East Palestine, while creating a perfect storm for scapegoating laborers in the event such an accident does occur. This is all done while lying to union leadership, the FRA, and the NTSB. Seems that BNSF is heading for a rough long patch ahead, and furloughs are inevitable by design, how many 1600-1599, when (june july august), or where doesn’t matter at this point because corporate has already set the stage for it to happen, now its just a messaging game and hoping that another officer doesn’t get pi---d or vindictive, and leak more of the corporate secrets because they see their own job coming to end based on the previously mentioned master plan. It is different to see so many shops starting to recognize the liars and leadership failures, and speaking up and out about such, so keep the information coming, because shops everywhere need to see how the company rats are sc--wing them over purposefully, knowledge is power and communication is key, let the mess they created snowball on them, we all know they earned it

I think BNSF finally said UP has been doing it worse than us for long enough, hold my BPA infused niagara water and watch this. Then management failed to keep a secret like they fail at everything else, except of course asinine diversity training and building billion dollar projects in the most expensive places in the country to do so, congrats you d-mbasses, this trophy is for you

This can't be true! UP hasn't done it first....and WE do everything after UP does it.
This company is like most of its engines...old and worn out.
When you don't meet a standard you set a new one...this is a daily occurrence with ol' BNSF management.

Lmao! They ain't tracking shìt. The railroad that routinely loses track of railcars and locomotives is somehow capable of hunting down a leaker on the internet!?! Haha ok! All bark and no bite.

Bobby is a joke!

I just heard from a trainer that BNSF brass is trying to figure out who made the original post. Between this location and another one up north where I still have friends, FLS have been on the floor on damage control trying to simmer the fires.

First off, IF it was me (or any employee for that matter) what policy have I broken? What law? Show me a f***ing warrant? Good luck trying to trace my IP address you Orwellian bootlickers.

At this point, NO ONE from TY&E, to MOW, to mechanical believes anything management says. All they care about is RECORD BREAKING PROFITS and the fat BONUSES they get for cutting.

Everyone of us is a number. A static. The company most likely has "Dead Peasant Insurance" on all of us anyway. At least until they phase all of us out and automate everything. This is literally why unions exist.

I hope they read this and seeth.

Anyone enjoying that shift briefings resemble a scene out of tombstone to every foreman that walks in with some bs, like I’m your huckleberry, then telling them run Kerr, run Kerr, and tell them hells coming with me lol

Just here to watch BNSF corporate trying to negotiate how to furlough without being caught in a fu-k we got caught moment #sh-tshowcentral

Found out this past week myshop has been fudging and manipulating numbers based on productive and non productive work. Was specifically designed to log utilization of lunch, breaks, union business as non productivity even though it’s union mandated in contracts. Responding, travel, locomotive movement (even that covered under RISA) or defects initiated but that go unrepaired on a shift are considered unproductive work. Leadman, training, vacation time during your normal shift but are not at work, call out sick (F1 SK EN LA codes), or utilization of FMLA, locomotive movement within mechanical limits or any work not directly associated with an active repair on a locomotive is also logged as unproductive work if you are scheduled to be at work on a specific day and is directly utilized in conjunction with workforce hub, your foreman have been given direct instructions not to tell you these things and been told to actually tell you things contrary to this so that you continue to utilize these in MYSHOP, but any sup with MAM BIPOWER access can see exactly the correlation between paid time, what you worked on or did not work on, and your productivity for every single day for every employee system wide, and how the system calculated it with graph based data, separated by shifts, crafts, and work performed. My shop programs managers have also created a standard that has time associated with each repair like a mechanics hours of service repair manual, any time after that preset time has been reached, it is internally logged as non productive work even though it does not show as such on the craft side in shops, no matter how much time is logged against a unit. Shops with reported injuries or with highest levels of unproductive work will be hit hardest during furloughs

Just sitting back and watching the corporate BNSF sh-tshow burn as the play circle the wagon and hope the employees don’t hold us accountable

Doesn’t really matter what BNSF puts out at this point, anything relatively close to the numbers that were put out in the original post whether in total or some weird nonsensical cr-p like we will offer moving incentives for temporary jobs in terrible places etc or some combination thereof and I’m going to say BNSF got caught slipping or pi---d off the wrong company officer who put out their master plan, either way, it’s nice to see them trying to do the political gymnastics they’ve been making every else do since the PEB,

BNSF level of thinking, lay-off 1599 then tell everyone see that statement was false, you should have asked us for the official number, but we are being as transparent as we always have, and as always we care, just keep watching

Feeling cute, might apply for a MOW job later just to be laid off next year when all those newly created jobs that were created for the early march furlough goes away January 1, when the infrastructure expenditure money is reallocated for corporate bonuses based on how much they didn’t spend 😂

I see the company came out with there damage control bullet point statement.
Letting everyone know that this is a rumor and completely untrue. Weird that they said "This is untrue, we have no plans to lay off 1600 people..." then went on to talk about how business dictates staff movement, ect. ect..

They're probably telling the truth. It will most likely be a smaller number than that. 4-500 is more realistic to continue their dismantling of the workforce.

And they wonder why no one applies here. Lol

It’s almost weird the company has tasked foreman to get on here and lie, tell people not believe anything, but then continue to lie to every person in the shops. I mean it’s like workers don’t believe anything you see on a day in day out basis, only believe what we tell you. Kind of like cameras are for security until they became for ops testing, safety is a priority until you are given direct instruction to do something unsafe then it becomes insubordination, get injured at work…fact finding is for improving the process until it becomes an avenue to fire people and deny medical coverage, it’s almost comical to see these su-k a-s foreman get on here and try and convince people that what craft members see and work through on a day day out basis isn’t the truth

Oh look another foreman jumping on here to please their boss, running interference for corporate buzzards

Haha this just got blasted as made up. Yes bnsf su-ks a-s but whoever made this bull cr-p post quit making people more worried than they already are

The minute I’ll feel safe that furloughs ain’t coming is when Katie, Bruno, Edmundo, Demond, and the rest of the goon squad are holding their thumbs out in Fort Worth for a ride

I guess when FLS, GFs, and CMOs all lie to their people or expect to just keep getting their bonuses at the expense of their people and their families eventually all of it comes crashing down, it’s crazy to think 10 years ago freight was rolling, BNSF was handing out hiring bonuses to new hires, yet when Katie took over, this new set of VPs and CMOs like Edmundo, Soto, Demond, even the few that stepped out to go work for other class 1, it’s all gone down hill in such a short period and now the furlough rabbit hole does not seem to have a bottom, like it’s a race to see who can sc--w up BNSF more in the shortest period possible at the expense of the actual people who keep the trains moving and locomotives running

I’ve heard grumbling that signal and telecom were on the chopping block, most wayside readers that have been put in, signal boxes, crossings, etc, are all warranty items now because they are new, or newish, so pop and swap style fixes are leading to a reduction for them as well but I know the Fort Worth wayside office managers got hit in early March so I can assume Indians are next when is the big question

Come work at BNSFs new and improved Golden gateway Comodal 🚽, for higher cost of living, less access to fuel, failed all electric locomotive projects, and a consistent implementation of commerce style pilot programs that make everyone’s lives miserable at the expense of workers so some upper manager can say look at me…those kind “big” projects

They're gonna cut mechanical jobs throughout the Midwest in an attempt to get people to become MOW workers out West for their BIG Project. They want you to up-root your life and move somewhere with a much higher cost of living because they can't trick anyone out West to sell their soul to this company for lousy pay and even worse schedules anymore.

Everyone wants the source… surprise surprise it came from BNSF upper brass….the real question on everyone’s mind is who leaked it…because they are pi---d their master plan is out in the open now trying to convince people it’s a rumor…I’ve never seen more upper brass making their rounds so worried about a rumor

Typical BNSF response, there’s no truth to it, it’s just a rumor, then be happy it’s not more

AT the local chairman meeting in Fort Worth we were told to be happy that it was only 300 furloughs they wanted 1200.

anyone hear anything about signal dept???

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"In the days of steam and iron's reign,
When locomotives roared with strain,
Across vast lands and valleys deep,
The railroad's song would softly creep.

Through mountains tall and rivers wide,
The iron horse would swiftly glide,
Its whistle echoing through the night,
Guiding travelers by its light.

With rhythmic chug and billows grand,
It journeyed to a distant land,
Carrying dreams and hopes untold,
On tracks of steel, forever bold.

Though time may fade and memories blur,
The legacy of railroads endure,
A testament to human might,
In the golden age of steam's delight.

From days of yore, when steam did reign,
To modern times, where echoes wane,
The railroad's journey takes a turn,
As progress burns and fortunes churn.

In boardrooms cold, where profits soar,
The railroad's tale takes on a new score,
Layoffs haunt the tracks of steel,
As corporate greed begins to reel.

Mechanized beasts of diesel might,
Now bear the burden of the fight,
But workers laid off in the fray,
Face uncertain roads, day by day.

Late-stage capitalism's grip,
Leaves scars upon the iron strip,
Where once camaraderie thrived,
Now division and strife collide.

Yet still, amidst the corporate game,
The spirit of the railroad flame,
Endures in those who ride the rails,
Their stories echoing through the gales."

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