"Q21: Are agreement management and administrative employees participating in RULA?A21: The intent of RULA is to include management and administrative agreement personnel in this program. We will be working with the various unions over the next couple of weeks to determine how that participation will look."
In other words yes there will be massive furloughs coming to union workers. We just had to make it look like we are all sharing in the pain by making management take some pain first.
Furloughs actually make sense RIGHT NOW. Last year it was psr at work. But given the pandemic right now I understand.
Managers are not going to suffer greatly under RULA or any other reduction, because many have options for employment outside of the railroad. For most UP is a pit-stop anyway, as it was for me and many others who took the position as a first job out of school. If anything, RULA is an opportunity to seek out better employment.
If you have a degree from an accredited state or private university and UP management experience on your resume, you can get a job at almost any major company in the US or internationally. The agreement employees are stuck, and they know it. Hence why they're constantly complaining.
Agreement layoffs are pretty sure to come. Many agreement personnel are excited to hear about the pay cuts of management via RULA, but we all will be negatively impacted. No reason to laugh from either side. We are all brothers and sisters. Take care everyone.
The managers that served the hot dogs are gettin the hotdogs served to them .
What is agreement personal?
Furloughs are happening because of PSR stop blaming the COVID-19... it was bad before but let’s blame the virus!Yeah no! Too many people at the top doing absolutely nothing to run the railroad!
Every industry is laying off.....its not just the rail industry.... furloughs make sense....they didn't make sense a year or ago when they were declaring record profits
You mean they don't want 20 people every shift clocked in on shop support/sanitation spraying bleach water on everything because there are no locos to work on? Yeah....furloughs are coming.
I totally agree with this post -
Now's as good a time as any to get furloughed. Lot of goverment assistance going on.