No doubt the rumors are true about Vena wiping out more than 30% of UP employees.
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362 on the Mechanical side, Exempt started getting cut yesterday as well various locations
We work continuously to align our people and resources with customer demand to deliver the industry-leading service our customers expect. This is a necessity for any network business to optimize the operation and run as efficiently as possible. While the underlying economy currently lacks clarity, BNSF is pursuing and capturing growth in several areas. We have an imbalance of employees where growth is occurring among some of our mechanical work groups.
We have team members in locations on the network where there isn’t sufficient work and simultaneously not enough team members where the growth is occurring. Work groups must be readjusted to ensure we have the right people in the right place at the right time to best serve our customers’ current transportation needs and be positioned for future growth.
There is an urgency as we are seeing this growth now and we want our existing employees to have the opportunity to do the work. To accomplish this, BNSF has offered location transfers with incentives targeted to those locations where there are open positions. BNSF has also offered craft transfers for mechanical employees to be retrained for other open positions on the BNSF network. There are currently several hundred open mechanical and engineering positions on our network.
Statement from Kendall Kirkham Sloan, BNSF Director of External Communications
3% maybe not 30%
Fake news
You’d be better off.. If you eliminated conductors, and put a carman on each train
I speculate this means govt has told the railroads behind the scenes that 2 man crews are here to stay for the foreseeable future.
A: can an engineer alone get a train with good reliable locomotives and freight cars from here to there? YES
B: can an engineer AND a conductor get a train from here to there if the locomotive breaks down, cant maintain track speed, or a car has a malfuction? No
How long will it take the govt to tell railroads they have to maintain their rolling stock?
327 mechanical employees will be furloughed by BNSF. I guess monkey see monkey do.