(Source: Trains.com, September 19, 2024)
As BNSF Railway, CSX, and Norfolk Southern continue to sign tentative contract agreements with their labor unions well in advance of the start of national negotiations, one U.S. Class I railroad has been conspicuously absent: Union Pacific. UP executives explained today that – unlike the other railroads – they’re seeking to modernize work rules as part of their contract talks.
UP wants the flexibility to use crews differently in terminals, for example, and continues to work on implementing new work/rest schedules as part of an agreement reached last year with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. The railroad also aims to make changes to the way conductors represented by the SMART-TD union are scheduled to work and have time off.
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