Whether it’s a toxic culture or abysmal pay, the message is clear: Stay away. By Serah Louis for moneywise.com Nov. 18, 2021 Even if you wake up every morning dreading the start of your work day, you might still count yourself lucky that you don’t work for one of these employers. We’ve compiled a list […]
In Stetsons and waistcoats, Astros gear and flag-print hoodies, thousands of Texans lined up along the sides of small-town train tracks Thursday to mourn their former president, the home-grown politician with a Texas-sized legacy. Some waited on the tracks, while others posted up on camping stools and the backs of pick-up trucks, perhaps trading lessons […]
Union Pacific will participate the presidential funeral procession for George H. W. Bush. The railroad announced Saturday locomotive 4141 will take the president’s body from the Houston area to College Station — the home of his presidential library on the Texas A&M campus. Union Pacific President Bush and his wife Barbara in the cab of […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Around 200 positions are being cut in a second wave of layoffs at Union Pacific. In October, Union Pacific announced a workforce reduction of approximately 475 employees occurring in the fourth quarter. Additionally, approximately 200 contract positions will be eliminated. A spokesperson from Union Pacific says the impacted positions are across the […]
Union Pacific continues to make significant progress implementing positive train control (PTC). The company will meet all required deadlines for installing PTC on its network. As allowed by federal law, Union Pacific will continue to implement, test and refine the complex suite of technologies comprising the system in 2019-20. Union Pacific’s required PTC footprint is […]
CARTHAGE, Mo. — The city of Carthage is suing Union Pacific Railroad Corp., alleging the rail company has failed to maintain several bridges and crossings within the city. The suit, filed in federal court, cites 17 crossings, including the Oak Street bridge along Route 66. The city is asking the court to find Union Pacific […]
FESTUS • A limestone castle with a four-story gun tower used during the Civil War sits among 2,300 wooded acres on the bluffs of the Mississippi River, visible to the outside world only from water or air and shrouded in mystery. The castle goes by several names, including Selma Hall and Selma Farm. Most […]
ST. LOUIS – A railroad conductor alleges he was injured in a fall while working when the ladder he was using broke away. Reece Weatherby filed a complaint on Nov. 6 in the St. Louis Circuit Court against Union Pacific Railroad Co. citing the Federal Employers Liability Act. According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges […]
Loads of grain trundled down toward Mexico as summer ended, and strong crude prices drove up the number of rail cars hauling petroleum or liquefied gas by 40 percent. But Union Pacific ended a record third quarter with an announcement that nearly 700 jobs would be cut. Most of those workers were management […]
Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) is seeing strong growth in its Intermodal business of late, due to constraints in the trucking industry. In addition, there has been a ramp up in industrial products shipments amid higher industrial production. However, agricultural products and coal freight business continues to see slow growth amid coal related pricing […]