BNSF management is just a circular firing squad.
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I can confirm that BNSF has corporate culture that is unrepairable…when you have Directors who retaliate against their own team and fabricate lies out of whole cloth, it’s time for that company to start over. You can’t fix how broken something like that is…it all started when the maniacal Warren Buffet bought BNSF.
Signed,
Former loyal to the end company officer…
It was a union problem until BNSF paid of judges or went judge shopping to get favorable rulings against the union. Every union employee now knows that no matter what, there’s no such thing as a strike able major offense, because BNSF is allowed to judge shop and the NLRB has since become more worthless than the paper it’s written on. Whether unsafe working conditions, arbitrary side bar agreements between the company and union leadership despite down votes, or wage disputes the company can no longer be held accountable, past administrations presidential board sealed the deal for thousands of workers as they made it impossible and essentially illegal to strike despite valid claims
Ill speak for my management position. Most of us are good people and wanted to change it for the better. The problem is.... The people higher than me wanted stuff done that was unrealistic and was a safety concern. The local managers have to hear about fort worth stuff and do what they want. We barely had any say into anything. Do it or move along was their moto. The other problem is with employees.... most of the concerns you guys have, we cannot control or change. Most of the concerns should've been a union concern. We can't give you a raise, we can't have you working other crafts dutys, you have to wear your PPE, we can't give you "comp time". I swear, some people tried to smoke a pack of cigs a day to get out of work. That was the majority of the problems that craftsman came to me with. I mean, come on.
BNSF's management culture is catastrophically toxic. Ft Worth's emphasis on blind loyalty over competence breeds crippling resentment, internal sabotage, and rampant mistrust. This destructive dynamic drives top performers out, leaving a trail of spineless, sycophantic managers in their wake.