GUERNSEY – The face and future of the BNSF Railway yard in Guernsey may be changing in the next few months.
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GUERNSEY – The face and future of the BNSF Railway yard in Guernsey may be changing in the next few months.
According to Maia LaSalle, Director of Public Affairs at BNSF in a release that she provided for the Guernsey Gazette, she said, “BNSF Railway has made the decision to close maintenance facilities in Donkey Creek and Guernsey, in response to our customers’ changing business conditions and projected lower demand for rail cars to ship commodities.”
Although the company has not specified whether other layoffs are coming, speculation is the coronavirus has had an impact on the current announcement. Due to collective bargaining, the railway has 60 days to try to come up with perhaps a solution to alleviate the closures, but as of now, the shutdowns are on the table.
History shows this has happened before in the BNSF organization and in the collective bargaining period, the company has not gone ahead with plans to eliminate jobs. Chad Hansen, Terminal Manager at Guernsey is hopeful this will be the case.
Lasalle, however, said that this decision will not be reversed.