Unless the plan is for everyone to get laid off and that only the management stays at UP, I figure with all the layoffs we have to be pretty close to the number of workers that plan stats. I would like to get some other thoughts on this matter.
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There is no end to this slapdash approach to unified 2020. Its a hail mary. In a nutshell its Blackrock Inc way of robbing peter to pay paul. So when there done sweating out the assets of the company thats when 2020 will end
The goals keep changing. What is the measuring stick?
What’s going on in Portland since Hinkle closeing? What happened to management there? Let go or transferred? Any info on this? just wondering if that is going to happen here
OP: What makes you think that there is a plan?
As far as I can see, all the UP leadership is doing is throwing stuff at the wall and hoping it will increase the stock value. It seems to be working for now, but that doesn't mean it's happening as part of a detailed plan.
What the people running UP have (whether they know it or not), is an ad-hoc mixture of recycled ideas and arbitrary performance metrics that they've cobbled together and called "Unified Plan 2020".
As for managers, they don't need to be laid off. Enough managers quit early in their careers (<3 years) to keep them, as a group, from becoming a liability, and they can always hire some new college grad at a bargain price (usually around $70k/year) to backfill. It's isn't like being a manager at UP requires qualifications or experience.
U think they’ll stop when they meet the goal? They’ll keep on going until they make it as successful as trump’s Atlantic City c-sinos. MAGA!
What more can they or are they planning on closing?
I think since we weren’t close the last quarter they’ll close another hump or two and see where we’re at as far as operating ratio. June 1st is going to be a very interesting. Stay tuned
Company wants eliminate the union jobs everywhere at UP. Become a major feces pit. Go find another job.
BLET is the #1 union.
We won!
Major UP cutthroat.
The goal is to cut waste as much as possible. Our new CMO stated that they are looking to trim our locomotive fleet to around 4100. That's storing 100 more high horsepower and 100 low horse power units. He also said, that if a hump yard isn't producing close to full capacity, it's costing too much to maintain, and the company will shutter them, which in turn would doom the mechanical shop attached to the hump. So, as I get closer and closer to the bottom of my seniority roster, the more and more applications I am putting out there. I plan to leave before being forced to.