UP under fire for denying veterans time off on Veteran’s Day

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NSSD70ACe
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UP under fire for denying veterans time off on Veteran’s Day

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https://www.kyoutv.com/2022/11/11/union ... -off-vets/

The head of the Iowa Nat’l Guard and the Iowa chapter of the AFL-CIO are rather unhappy, as they should be. The state law seems pretty clear.

As for UnclePisspot’s “excuses”….I don’t know what their operating plan looks like, but on my end of the world we know roughly what trains are running when and we would definitely know more if the industry got rid of this asinine obsession with UPT and focused on on-time performance.
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Re: UP under fire for denying veterans time off on Veteran’s Day

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If you are interested in what the law says.

https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/91A.5A.pdf

KCCI reports 20% of Union Pacific's workforce are veterans. Percentage of population who are veterans. https://www.statista.com/statistics/250 ... -veterans/

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