https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/central-oregon-pacific-to-take-over-union-pacific-operations-in-eugene-ore-this-weekend/
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I'd recommend using a different term other than "fun" when describing how the UP can eliminate hundreds or thousands of more jobs from its network with announcing layoffs. The UP leasing out locations to other RR's and shortlines to run by using their own people and eliminating the UP workers is in no way fun! I do have a "fun" idea for you though. Trying posting something that can somehow help the UP workers get their jobs back, instead posting possibilities of how more UP workers might lose their jobs in the future. That would at least be a bit more productive.
Here is a fun fact that most of you know and some don't. You can't contract out a conductor or engineer on a class one railroad... but.... You can lease a location out to another railroad. Thats what they are doing.
Running it like Biden on a military pull out, throwing away , scraping, and tearing down usable buildings to just pay someone else to do it. The waste and the management sent to do the cut throat job and then these same managers will be looking for a job within a year. No where to climb on the ladder and until the Leprechaun is gone the same old sh-t the same song and dance.
So short lines can operate a railroad more efficiently than Vena. Got it.
Why does this company problem solve like this? Years ago problem was too many managers were voluntarily stepping back down to their seniority, instead of fixing the causes why managers w/ actual craft experience would rather demote themselves out of management, they just hire inexperienced people off the street straight into management. This lead to this new problem of these inexperienced managers not being able to manage the pickup / delivery part of moving freight. Once again instead of FIXING this, they decide to just shove this problem onto someone else. Does upper management not see and then correlate them hearing from the employees who keep reporting over and over that managers dont know how to perform the work they are overseeing? Now customers will get the added complexity of short line saying they havent gotten xy&z from UP, UP managers claiming its the shortlines fault.
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Seems to me based off this post and comments along with others claiming fraud and abuse the railroads need a DOGE lookover with all the funding and grants they receive.
Can't believe shareholders aren't pushing him out for this. He says we want to be the best but we just don't want to do any of the work it takes to do it. Or.....or the same shareholders own these short lines so they are double dipping on their income at the cost of our union jobs doing the work
Pull up some chairs and enjoy the circus folks lol. Company is crumbling, I love it.
It’s got a lot to do with how poor the management is on the railroad. When your front line managers can’t manage local service what does that say about the company as a whole?