Thread regarding Union Pacific Corp. layoffs

UP used to offer generous buyouts when downsizing. Do they still do this? Do they offer severance pay based on years of service? (Asking for a friend.)

Manager here. If this is true and you have managers actively covering up safety incidents or bribing you to not report incidents, you need to make a values line call immediately. Anyone refusing to properly report real incidents should not be working at UP.

Safety is expensive. A few thousand in prevention or a few million when something happens. Choose one.

Maybe bring back safety days at least.

Sounds like someone just swallowed a big load of "incentive"

I get my incentive every pay day.

Accidents and injuries go unreported now. Especially in the maintenance of way department. Those long records are only because employees are scared to report anything for fear from their manager retaliating because the managers bonus might be lowered. Ask around it’s true. Managers will give days off with pay under the table so the employees won’t report the injury and the manager never files an accident report. So, maybe they should take away the bonuses from the managers.

Have your union negotiate it...

Safety bonuses are bad because it incentivizes people to not report injuries or incidents so we look good on paper. If that happens we can’t investigate and try to fix safety issues at the root cause.

UP has paid a stock dividend to their shareholders every year since the railroad was created. It has raised it's dividend every year for the last 12 years. Just as an FYI

Other shortline rails have offered safety bonuses and the FRA frowns on that.

Bnsf offers profit sharing

Agreed... this company would skyrocket if they just showed the employees a little gratitude and gave some incentive. This company is consumed by greed and they only see the employee pool as waste of money. Employees are not seen as an asset and never will be until all current executives are removed from power.