The Kansas division has been affected by both of the recent furlough this year and rumor support that next week, Supervisors will also be getting cut once again. With the company, wanting to move away from smaller points, there have been rumors that Wellington Kansas, Salina Kansas and Newton Kansas points will all be shutting down and traffic will go in and out of Wichita via detectors.
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They are doing the same thing in Northtown, MN. What’s even worse, the company is offering conditional job offers via relocation packages to certain locations like northtown. Employees at those locations are already leaving due public statements by BNSF (the company built the Wilmer Wye project to by pass downtown and connect 2 subdivisions…per post put out by company on Indeed)and work reductions are already taking place, ie the company is routing work around those facilities through deferred maintenance and deferred inspections. What’s worse is those conditional job offers are attached with a 3 year hold, whereas an employee must work in that location for 3 years or pay the company back, even though the company does not plan on employing the worker for 3 years. This seems like fraudulent, conditional based job offers that the company never intends to honor, and even worse, attempting to make the employee pay the company back for a fraudulent job offer BNSF never intended to honor. If it were me, I’d be contacting the department of labor for BNSF offering fraudulent conditional based employment offers in specific locations, that it does not plan to honor, and based on forcing employees to pay back relocation packages offered under those fraudulent offers, would actually be reducing employees pay to below contractual agreements.