https://www.propublica.org/article/trains-railroad-kcs-kansas-city-southern-injuries-lawsuit . Guy hit a derail sign while getting on a car. Knocked down, parts of both legs cutoff. Managers moved the sign to coverup cause of injury. He sued... — read more 

the agenda for 2024. utility worker

Employees intimidated when they report safety defects. https://www.propublica.org/article/railroad-safety-union-pacific-csx-bnsf-trains-freight

In case you ever thought The How Matters to UP, I can prove that it does not. General Managers and Superintendents receive copies of every Safety Hotline, Values Line and employee survey submitted with employee names. They are told to “handle the... — read more 

I was listening to the townhall and around the 5:35 marker Jim started talking about what he had on and deciding to “dress like everyone else today”. He went on to say he had on some cheap shoes, Lulemon shirt and pants, etc… This CEO is nuts!

Quote from Vena today during the town hall. We will see who the liar is; do we do what the CEO says or do we furlough mechanical anyway.

Been told to give Zebra device to manager and not use them anymore. Anybody know why? They said only local and yard crew will use them now.

Active fleet is down 151 locomotives since 11/10/23. Will most likely drop more after peak season.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/union-pacific-ceo-jim-vena-bought-stock-6b0e05b6?mod=hp_LATEST . JV bought large block of UP stock.

There was not any real reduction in layers. All they did was move people around to make it look like they reduced layers. Why is there a VP, Senior VP, Senior MTO, MTO, etc. They keep recycling the same incompetent managers into different "roles." A... — read more 

Man I can’t wait till January 1st! That way I’ll know for sure whether or not I’ll have Valentine’s Day off!

Will furghloughed employees get the bonus this week?

$1.4 million paid for wrongfully terminating an employee and Leonard Scherer escorted from the building. Looking good UP, oh this was probably confidential. Sorry, wouldn’t want shareholders to know, might affect executive bonuses.

Waiting for them to pull the trigger. I’m tired of waiting and I just hope if they shutter my location again that I get cut too! I don’t want to be here for the fallout again.

Bring back RULA and Undertime let’s give the shareholders a Christmas to Remember

BUT THEY ARE TRYING https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/labor-unions-urge-regulators-to-press-big-u-s-railroads-on-employment-and-service-levels/

$1000 bonus checks will come on Dec. 14th.

For the first time since 2020, in Q4 UP is likely to have higher volumes YoY (low single-digits) and materially better operating performance. Will this continue into 2024 with a recession year?

https://www.propublica.org/article/union-pacific-railroad-dangerous-conditions-warnings-fired-employee ProPublica are good people to contact if you have an important story like this one to tell.

Today the Denver Car Department was notified that all employees no longer have jobs. Transportation crews and utility employees will be doing all inbound and outbound inspections. Traveling Car Inspectors will most likely be doing the bad order... — read more 

https://www.1011now.com/2023/12/03/rail-union-says-union-pacific-layoffs-over-1000-track-maintenance-workers-jeopardizes-safety/

Due to some unforeseen circumstances with new services and higher carloads, we are all safe until the end of the 1st quarter of 2024. The only problem now with more business is that we don’t have the extra people and the extra locomotives. The... — read more 

Dude, get your nose out of the boss’ a-s. Nobody wants to hear you talk that long.

Who wants to bet UP's system will magically go down and we won't be able to take our sick day midnight on the 1st????

They having a large group of Signal and Telecom managers meeting in Ft. Worth on Friday , Dec 1st.

https://www.bmwe.org/cms/file/11282023_124546_UPFURLOUGHSLETTERTOSTB.PDF

Anybody know what's happening to the coal line? Heard from a friend that all coal sets will be worked at north Platte and locations that see exclusively coal will be let go with 1 or 2 TCI jobs? Anybody hear anything on this?

Vena wants to eliminate all locomotives and employees since they cost too much. He plans on turning the railroad over to the shareholders!

Just got forwarded the email from a colleague of mine at HQ. December 5th Vena is storing 1400 locomotives for LONG TERM. I don’t know which locations will be shutdown and how many jobs will be gone but with that amount of stored locomotives we could... — read more 

Ok guys, this is reality. Only the strong will survive in the railroad industry. Hard recession is coming like a runaway freight train. In the railroad industry, the east coast will get hit first. The west will see a lagging effect. Something called... — read more 

Vena reaching out to potential contractors. In the works. 2024-2026 phase out- car, round house, coach cleaners, etc. Mark my word.

“More more more faster faster faster” is what they say.

Squash the hiring in De Soto! Visit our shop for yourself! We don’t need anymore people, we can furlough 25 guys if managers would do their job and force the guys to work! Your upper management has the wool over your eyes!

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/csx-ceo-joe-hinrichs-encourages-railroads-to-work-together-and-set-higher-service-standards/

A few of my friends got let go. Yes, they were managers. Are we friends still? I can't say. Survival of the fittest. I have to take care of number one, me. Let this be a lesson. Karma works in mysterious ways.

Vena is having Thanksgiving with his family. November 27, 2023 is not going to be good. I heard he's going to hit the western region. Dec. numbers have to look good for the shareholders. Building America with one less employee at a time.. I've been... — read more 

https://www.propublica.org/article/railroad-safety-union-pacific-csx-bnsf-trains-freight . Some rr safety info, intimidated , fired employees , etc.

Look, Vena wasn’t brought here to be our friend. He only knows one thing, PSR and mass layoffs. I know there’s lots of “rumors” going around and there’s always some sort of truth behind every rumor. I work at HQ and lately the upper management has... — read more 

I saw the article where basically the retiring STB chairman Oberman tore into Vena about the continuance of layoffs at the UP. He also highlighted that the other class 1's got away from furloughs, but the UP didn't. Now I'm not calling Vena stupid... — read more