Thread regarding BNSF Railway layoffs

BNSF, under last furlough’s in February, offered furloughed employees the ability to relocate to alliance, west O, Topeka, etc.. These offered relocation packages were done so under the stipulation of 3 year holds attached to rule 19 union transfers under furlough status(an employee must actively work at facility they relocated to, or pay the company back the 5000 dollar moving package that was offered, but taxed as a bonus). The company, once employees relocated, furloughed them from the place they just transferred too, and forced them to pay back relocation funds, of which were actually more than there earned wages or what they were actually given due to how the company taxed it before it was given, which they taxed at a bonus rate and not that of a normal wage. This means employees were only given about 3000 to relocate after moving package was taxed as a bonus, but after furlough, employees are being made to pay back 5000 post tax dollars, after BNSF furloughed them again. It’s a scam, and the job offers were simply the companies way of trying to prevent bad messaging in the media. The jobs that BNSF offered to relocate employees too for “company growth” or “changing business environments,” were actually fraudulent offers given to employees with no intention of honoring them, as a few months after relocating, the company furloughed the same employees again, and forced them to pay the company back more than it gave the employees to relocate, as the funds the employees are having to pay back the company are not taxed the same. It’s business fraud at its finest.