Thread regarding Union Pacific Corp. layoffs

Your manager is the last person you should trust or believe! When the diesel house closed at my location I had to find out from the local TV news, so I called my local chairmen and confronted him about it and he said they ( management) told him not to tell anyone about the closure,

@OP: Good article. Thanks.

Anyone who wants to read it can just go Google>Union Pacific Layoffs>News. No paywall.

It actually has quotes from the COO talking about how agreement employees supposedly "see the endgame" and "want to get better". He is completely out of touch with his workforce.

Warning: the article contains face pics of the COO and CEO. Excessive viewing may induce chronic nausea and/or heavy vomiting.

Here is a over view of those who don’t read it or can’t open the link.

However, even with the drop in traffic, the employment cuts laid out last week exceed what would be expected with that level of worker efficiency.

Union Pacific said the 13% overall job reduction includes a 13% cut to its train, engine and yard workforce and 15% cuts in management, engineering and mechanical fields.

The railroad declined to provide location-specific job reductions, including at its headquarters in Omaha. A company memo obtained by The World-Herald showed that the company cut about 160 Omaha employees in February, but Union Pacific employees say there have been other rounds of cuts as well.

Union Pacific officials said they expect further workforce reductions in the final quarter of the year. While they did not give a specific number, it appears from their target to involve roughly 1,200 in additional jobs. That would bring the 15-month total of lost jobs since precision railroading was launched to nearly 7,000.