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UP furloughs 3,150 employees

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UP furloughs 3,150 employees
Posted by Lyon_Wonder on Friday, January 23, 2009 5:12 PM

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1208&u_sid=10545024 

Union Pacific Corp. has furloughed about 3,150 train and yard employees, and more cuts could be made in the first three months of this year if business doesn't pick up, officials said Thursday. A few hundred more jobs could be cut from the railroad's work force of 47,000, including some at the railroad's Omaha headquarters, spokeswoman Donna Kush said. "It all depends on volumes," she said. The latest cuts leave about 18,060 train and yard employees still working, officials said.

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