Does anyone have any knowledge of how this job protection act should pertain to us?
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Maybe that is how they avoided it. Was not a total closure, just an 80%-90% reduction.
Of course they say the work went away. Yes it went away, up the road to somewhere else.
With the beginning of psr 2 years ago I'm pretty sure if it did apply to any of the furloughed, it would have been before now.
Did the u.p transfer your work to another location? Or did you just get furloughed? You are not giving any information of your situation.
Denver Burnham shop had a total shop closure in 2015 which put 50% of all the Union rosters in a worst state! Denver north yard remains open and all employees who were able to exercise seniority to continue working got the 1964 Washington agreement! So if you got furloughed with no place to go I believe you are SOL
Their lawyers may save them, but they violated it.
I think it does. I think that their best lawyers have laid out a plan how they can push, bend, and twist the rules to get by with their plan. Therefore, having received absolutely no resistance, well here we are.
If you join the Union and go to Washington to fight for us they’ll give you 1,964 hotdogs for standing up for your rights.
I hate to be the one to say this, but it doesn't. Do you really think the UP would be doing mass layoffs without someone in their legal department checking to see if there's conditional agreements that would prevent them from doing so first? I want to see the UP burn just like most people, but most people are just grasping at straws now. The UP has some of the best lawyers at their disposal. The UP execs are going to screw up. It's not a question of if. It's now a question of when.