This story originally ran in Trains.com.
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 on Thursday that – unlike the other railroads – it is seeking to modernize work rules as part of its contract talks.
“Some of the other railroads have started to enter into labor agreements with...