(Source: Railway Age, May 17, 2022)
NEW YORK — Since implementation of its “Hi-Viz” attendance policy on Feb. 1, BNSF has been monitoring progress and making adjustments, some of which will take effect June 1, according to the Class I railroad. Unions so far are unimpressed. In a May 16 statement, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) National President Dennis Pierce called the changes “little more than fluff. Hi-Viz has been an abject failure. This unreasonable policy, which keeps locomotive engineers and other railroaders on call day after day, around the clock, has caused hundreds of BNSF’s employees to quit and it has made recruitment of new employees a nightmare.”
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