Dividend growth at the expense of the employees

I generally don’t like reading articles related to the stock market, much less posting them on sites, but I gotta admit that this one caught my eye and not in a good way. The author points out the main factors that a company must have to provide a steady dividend growth and concludes that UP has all of them, even calling UP a shareholder-friendly company. While that may all be true, I think that the majority of funds for this sort of growth comes from the benefits that the company has from the poor treatment of its workers, overworking and underpaying them, and the, when cost’s need to be cut, letting them go, For me it’s as simple as that.

https://www.gurufocus.com/news/790218/union-pacific-a-quality-railroad-stock-for-dividend-growth

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Shareholders > Board of Directors > Executives > Management = Customers > Workers is how it works in America.

The sooner folks come to peace with that the happier they'll be. If you've participated in the employee stock purchase plan over the last five plus years or so, you should be feeling pretty good about it, since you can get those shares at a discount and they've been doing really well.

Flintstones must have been on a different day than the day they taught people how to spell curriculum

Yabadabadoo. $50 says I'm older than you.

Funny how our youngster doesn't know how to spell Flintstones. There must be gaps in that training cirriculum!! Lol. But honestly...are you for real?

What's happened is safety incidents are down, safety is up, on time is up, waste is down, variances are down, repairs are done in a timely fashion thanks to a massive drone network, accountability is way up due to the same, and improvements are up across in double digit percentages everywhere. UP is turning in a massive data analytics operation like a mini-Amazon resulting in cost savings and is doing it with less people, and ten years down the line, it's going to be just as mechanized. The truth of the matter is with the present level of training, the younger get, the more efficient we get, because older workers don't have have the foggiest notion of how things have improved, and we see it all over this board. It's like the Flinstones griping about the Jetsons.

The majority of the Yardmasters are being ridden pretty hard. Yeah, no doubt about it, the Shareholders love Greedy tactics that bring THEM value. Who shoulders the burden is not of concern to them.

Fg1s foremen mops yard crew managers yardmasters are getting paid more and only hold a coffe cup all day

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