How can the UP management claim an emergency when everyone on the railroad saw the inevitable situation years ago? Don’t change oil, main bearing wear and take out crankshafts. They close shops and furlough massive amounts of the work force and now... — read more 

Up posted on their website the news of another fatally injured employee with 11 years of service. 34 year old conductor ki-led in Wisconsin.

Heard we had another conductor fatality today. Got hit by a metra train while walking his freight train. Heard it was another “new guy”. How many fatalities do they need before they see they need more training?

I see they have electrician spots in ft worth open, but I have heard only bad about up. Really don't want to go thru training only to get furloughed a few months later.

5 more unions have a tentative agreement with Norfolk Southern. It’s getting real. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/norfolk-southern-reaches-tentative-collective-bargaining-agreements-with-five-additional-labor-unions-302234998.html — read more 

And that % is shrinking every day... Laying off all those locomotive mechanical employees is really bearing fruit...

Why does this company have two managers for 14 employees at Pocatello Locomotive but won’t hire more employees so they can get the work done?

Yet another safety survey UP is asking us to complete. It's on your MyUp page ,where they send you messages. I did not fill in the survey. .

Whatever happened to the issue we were willing to have a work stoppage and the government intervening? I remember it was a big deal at one point.

CSX and the TCU/BRC union have a tentative agreement already in place. Could we be next? https://www.tcunion.org/about/tcu-brc-reach-local-agreement-with-csx/

More cuts to come. Location closures expected on the West. Primarily California. Looks like they're going to in mid November. The word is out, don't say I didn't warn you.

We are being told that the company will be enforcement of overtime for all crafts

Well, they are back making points with another CSR blitz, high fiving like they won the lottery when they hide in the bushes and catch someone. We need to slow it down and follow the rules! Don’t use anything to help them out. Walk, don’t use your... — read more 

Coming to a town near you. That’s right, you can see first hand where your hard earned profits are really going. Well, besides managements bonuses. Enjoy.

Is anyone still working from home since JV team is running the show ? How many days per week at home ? Do they help pay your internet bill and electricity costs?

Anyone hear of a construction gang and a manager being pulled from service due to amtrak being lined into an industry?

Quiet quitting. We’ve discussed it on here before. If you are not doing that, you are asking to get in trouble. You will get in a lot more trouble working than doing nothing. Have a coworker working on something? Do not offer to help, not because you... — read more 

Who keeps doing this? Why? What was wrong with what was posted yesterday? Why are we not allowed to talk about the “incident”?

Sounds like coal really is dying. Arch resources has plans to shutter coal creak and black thunder mine. That's a shame

I guess management has a new policy in place that allows them to not only outright bully employees, but Vena even allows his management team to threaten employees to “go outside and fight”. Happened this week at our facility. Really? Management has... — read more 

Changes coming today. Another layoff round possible.

Another lame earnings call....average results. Same story, different quarter. Bless the analyst who sarcastically asked Jim about his egotistical comment last year....he asked him a year from now and he did. He's done norhing but cut costs and... — read more 

People being hit with critical rule violations, rules being being changed daily without notifying employees

UP isn't wanting to pay everyone for that bonus coming up.... They're marking up all Engineers and are starting to look at cameras a lot more. Managers are putting people in investigation for showing up a few minutes late to work.

I heard a lot of HQ pc were made useless because of the Crowdstrike program download . Is that true ? Mine was ok, had it turned off. How about other places on rr.

Will UP follow suit after the disastrous results of the secret service?

With losing a colleague, all the recent hits, the uncertainty with coming cuts? I think that only hard work and good people I work with keep me from falling apart.

Dunno what UP has there for assets but on July 31 they are getting rid of 15 people via permanent closure. Via Warn report

Rip and condolences to their family. New hire that hired on only in February. That being said, have to wonder in addition to what sounds like may have been some poor manager decisions, if this would have been avoided had we the manpower and time to... — read more 

If anyone uses fear as a strategy to get their people to work, that person has no business leading or managing anyone. For full disclosure, I am a retired manage. I was a conductor and engineer before becoming a manager for 20 years. I monitor this... — read more 

When do I get my pension buyout

…are going to be lost now because of the flooding and damaged bridges in Iowa? I mean, Vena isn’t going to absorb the costs, so it can only mean one thing, more job cuts to pay for these damages.

You can tell which posts are theirs by all the downvotes they get. Peddling UP BS doesn’t work here bruh.

LA is on the hot seat again. Apparently train delays due to last minute engineer defects. So Mechanical in Omaha sent a team to find out the problem. Today the word on the streets of Compton is that a senior mechanical manager from Omaha just arrived... — read more 

To sum it up: DO NOT WORK HERE!

Heat vans are now at use on the Yuma Sub and by all means need to be used when you're train goes UDE or you get a darn hot wheel, hot box, dragger or any other situation you need to walk you're train in that heat and possibly get sick or die. Use... — read more 

Effective July, new attendance policy charging more points for more layoff statuses, plus changing credits to 14 days of compensated work versus current system of calendar days with off days as neutral.

Contractual raise coming July 1st. Reduction of agreement employees to offset the additional cost of payroll coming soon. Vena will sugar coat it at the next town hall by saying “This is how we win”.

All the mechanical departments that worked on metra are now metra employees, It’s been a clusterfu-k transferring over but if feels great not being a up employee anymore