OPRRMS Wrote:
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> Graham Buxton Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Keith Ode Wrote:
> > -----------------------------
> > > Considering that railroads have fifty
> managers
> > for
> > > every one operating employee, who was
> managing
> > > this situation?
> >
> > From Union Pacific's annual 10-K report filed
> with
> > the SEC ...
> >
> >
> > Employees – Approximately 85% of our 47,201
> > full-time-equivalent employees are represented
> by
> > 14 major rail unions.
> >
> >
> [www.up.com]
>
> >
> /documents/investordocuments/pdf_upc_10k_02062015.
>
> > pdf
> >
> >
> > Aren't all operating employees part of one
> union
> > or another?
>
> Yes. Union Pacific operating employees can belong
> to either SMART (formerly United Transportation
> Union) or BLET (formerly Brotherhood of Locomotive
> Engineers ).

So if Ode is correct, then among the other 7,080
employees on UP they have over 2 million managers?

Neat trick, since the entire industry only employs
around 200,000 these days.