Craft Employee - Signal Maintainer CSX Employee Review

4.0
Mar 6, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very good pay and benefits. Safety is first at CSX, I have been empowered to make decisions about safety and how to preform my job. I have worked at CSX for 11 years and probably will retire from here. Overall its a good place to work.

Cons

No path for advancement for craft or hourly employees. The company seems to want t o hire outside the company for management. They hire them at a low wage and they have no railroad experience. Because of that, we have a lot of turnover in field managers. The company is going through a lot of restructuring right now, lots of lay offs and management cut backs despite record profits. They just announced 1000 management lay offs and I expect to see more lays offs soon.

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Cons

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