Topics regarding layoffs at Norfolk Southern Corp.

Topics regarding layoffs at Norfolk Southern Corp.

Forced over time

How is the company getting away with forcing carman to work 16 hours sometimes 5 days In a row? Then getting on the news and talking about how they are doing every thing they can to run trains safely. Try inspecting a train on your fifth forced... —  read more 

It doesn’t matter anyway!

Like the tittle says! It doesn’t matter how many derailments happen! You can’t haul the nasty sh-t on the roads. This country has to have the railroad unfortunately. Yeah I’m Bias bc I’m one of the many Carmen that got thrown out on the street bc of ... —  read more 

How much is enough?

One month in Ohio two derailments and an employee/brother lost his life …Im tired of this … Corporate Greed is Evil . NS nuked a town , narrowly avoided a second instance and now a conductor has lost his life . Jesus Christ please hold these... —  read more 

The carman

Carman have been layed off in ever increasing amounts as of late. If they had enough carman, the derailment in palistine oh. would have never happened. Let this be a lesson that car kn-----s are the backbone of the railroad.......Period

What raise?

T&E here…With the “raise” and increase in our cost for health insurance, I’m making less now if I have to claim guarantee than I was before the “raise.” Pretty much what we all knew would happen.

NS "Christmas Spirit" 2022

Looks like they learned their lesson from last year, shutting down 11p on 24th to 11p on 25th. Guess they learned that running on Xmas would result in every terminal on system laying off sick for a week straight....

When we’re gone

I have 28yrs and not many years to go . Who is going to want this job . Truthfully this company needs to decide . The T/E crafts in my location will lose yardmasters , engineers, trainmen at an alarming rate within the next 5/10 yrs . This... —  read more 

NS

I love the admins in this page when a subject/comment is posted and steps on their toes and the saltiness gets saltier to where they delete the comments 😂

All that overload

I think that in all these years that I have been working here, I have not been more overloaded than I am now. Unfortunately, I have no other option for now, except to try to do the best I can and stay under the radar. It is clear that the goal is... —  read more 

Contract

I work in mechanical and we don’t get told much by our union leadership, therefore we don’t always get details. Can anyone tell me what influenced the engineers to accept the offer? As I said, we are in the dark. Thank you

WTF !

Postponed till Dec 4th ? BLE / UTU you already threw the Dem’s a softball . Come on …To every union member looking into what a union objector is …

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