Union Pacific reviews

The company pays well for most states, but in California you will be living on an extremely tight budget and Union Pacific refuses to even consider the idea of a C.O.L.A. Despite the fact that many of it’s employees live out of their cars because they can’t afford to live a reasonable life compared to the cost of living and the managers say that it’s a good thing because that makes employees want to stay marked up and eager to work. Due to this we can’t convince anyone to stick around long enough to actually work, so they just hire anyone willing to apply and offer them basically zero training knowing they won’t be around more than a few months at most.

I worked as a field engineering manager. what surprised me most is the amount of hatred between the unions and the company management, in some instances they act like real enemies. the unions will defend their employees even when they are wrong. the work life balance is a disaster. working 24/7. when they made cuts( layoffs) it was even worse. Employees that have been working at this for long time really hate the direction of the company which is led by management. Overall very unhappy environment.