Former Democratic US STB member says Union Pacific CEO's recorded threat 'all too real'
( November 5, 2026, 23:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Former US Surface Transportation Board Member Robert E. Primus, a Democrat who President Donald Trump fired in the summer of 2025, wrote in a social media post that he watched the whole video of Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena's comments to shippers at an industry conference in March and now understands why the video was kept hidden. "When is a perceived joke not an actual joke? When the threat is all too real," Primus wrote.Full LinkedIn post follows:...
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