More than 200? I'm really sorry, guys. I hope you all land on your feet soon.
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This company is following the GE plan. Farm everything out and slap your name on it.
Two-person crews were mandated by the Biden administration. AAR recently filed a request with the DOT to have the Trump admin overturn the rule. Then there will be years of red tape to jump through if it does get overturned in the RR’s favor. Single engineering in the cab won’t be any time soon
Anyone on the inside here know when the company will go to Engineer only in the cab?
1600…getting closer
All contractors are next. That includes Infosys and HCL.
MSP folks will stay around until exempts can take over then will be promptly laid off.
What did yall get for severance pay and what was yalls time of service? I got 50k for 5 years if service.
Pretty heavy claim, whistleblower much
It’s just like the embezzlement that BNSF committed with Houston. BNSF reallocated equipment including million dollar projects to Houston knowing they were shutting it down. This includes drop pits, tooling, and large portions of unused equipment to Houston prior to hurricane season. With the reduction in force and closing of Houston mechanical facility already in the works when Silsbee mechanical was shutdown. BNSF relocated equipment, computer systems, and building materials to Houston under the umbrella of Warren Buffett who owns one of the nations largest insurance companies and thousands of underwriters. Waited for a hurricane to hit, Harvey , then claimed losses on the equities they put there as a way to claim insurance losses, offset business losses through tax fraud by claiming the losses they facilitated, then embezzled the funds in the form of corporate bonuses, while closing a facility they had already determined was going to be closed prior to the “build up” in the name of reallocation resources for the benefit of the company, despite the majority of rail traffic coming through the port of Houston. Temple is being utilized in the exact same manner, shop building up to include new cranes, pits, etc while a pre determined plan to shut the mechanical facility down is already in place, first major weather event to hit shop directly will be utilized to claim insurance losses, tax losses, and temple will be shut down, with the funds embezzled into corporate bonuses.
It’s already occurring, BNSF determined that the FRA would not question or stop locomotives or equipment that fail in route to major shops. They utilized this information and formulated a system that through MTR allows a train crew member to report what they see as a defect, and laborers to perform and “identify” defects without the necessity to repair them. By FRA standards if BNSF shuts down certain facilities leaving only a road truck as a responding vehicle stationed at a shop location, this nullifies the need to repair locomotives or equipment at those locations, as the defects were identified, and labeled as failures in route to point to point locations. Meaning the only time repairs are required to be made are at initial and terminating locations, while everything in between is identified as an in route location. Furthermore, if a road truck is left in a location, BNSF has deemed that regardless of no work actually being performed at the facility, they can say the facility is no actually closed, subverting union contracts, seniority, and the ability for workers to transfer to locations while maintaining their seniority. This means that BNSF utilizing the line of reappropriating resources for the benefit of the company is simply a lie on its face as it takes specific steps to ensure resources and manpower can not be reallocated in manner that benefits the company, instead it hinders that very thing jeopardizing safety and the communities that have served in propping up the railroad and its workers.
And after that, they are coming for the diesel and car shops. The buildings will be leased or sold. Maintenance and repair will be contractor work.
It isn’t over yet, IT was simply first wave, Agriculture, shuttle services, outlier locations, and workforce management are next. Equipment and transportation planning departments are on the chopping block as through point planner as it’s designed is removing the need for dispatchers, trainmasters, and terminal manager, instead replacing switch, derail, signal control in the hands of AI technology designed and implemented by coders and IT who were let go this morning. Equipment management including fueling and servicing events will be based on time tables assigned to locomotives, with no ability for mechanical foreman to say yes or no, cherry picking defects. Any locomotives not able to utilize TALOS or computer control programs to govern locomotive movement, are being pulled from service this month. This means that by next quarter intermediate fleets will no longer be utilized, instead BNSF is contracting with RJ Corman to facilitate yard and switching operations, opting for contractors who own and operate their own fleets. The transition has already occurred in southern stations including Milby and old Houston terminal, Pearland, and Galveston. Skeleton crews in locations such as Somerville, Brownwood, Casey, Temple, Clovis, Beaumont, Silsbee, Lafayette, and Birmingham, are next to be shuttered. BNSF has determined that profits made during legal challenges to NLRA and the RLA, with regard to man power and safety , are more than the cost to litigate outcomes in courts that have proven favorable to the company. It’s in place, as I was one of the ones who designed and facilitated the system to do so, but was cut today as collateral damage. I wish you all the best and for my part in this I apologize to those who are affected as I did not realize how the system I helped create would be utilized.
140 is the common number. Been told as low as 100 and as many as 175. All exempts in TS.
Less than 200 this round