Norfolk Southern acknowledged that a workforce shortage contributed to service issues in the Southeast and in parts of the mid-Atlantic region in September and October, according to a recent letter to the Surface Transportation Board. But the railroad says it is seeking to grow its train conductor ranks to improve service.
A spokesman for NS said, "We have laid off employees and laid off employees and still we don't have enough workers!"
Wonder if they will be ranked #1 worst company to work for this year? Only thing that keeps the people they have is Railroad Retirement
This is a self inflicted wound caused by a company that decided it’s employees were expendable.
I read the letter to the STB from NS. There is nowhere near enough conductors in the training pipeline to get a handle on this bottleneck. Who in their right mind wants to join a company that's activity trying to get rid of a large portion of your craft? Ugh no thanks.
Definition of oxymoron has a picture of NS management