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What Hallcon layoffs have meant for employees

A cut that starts with a customer can leave the work running under someone else. As Norfolk Southern was ending its Pennsylvania contract with Hallcon, Hallcon told the state it understood PTI would take over the crew-van work, and said PTI might hire some of the drivers, Central Penn Business Journal reported. Hallcon's New Mexico letter, as the Albuquerque Journal described it, pointed to something different, a client cutting back the service it bought. If your yard's work is moving to another contractor, applying there while your Hallcon job winds down is an option worth weighing.

At the rail yards where the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers union, UE, represents Hallcon's drivers, the national agreement with UE that took effect in October 2026 runs even small cuts on seniority. When a single van or shift is eliminated, Hallcon is to share a list of affected drivers with the union within 48 hours, and it has five work days from telling the union to identify bumps wherever open shifts exist. Drivers are to be offered open available work, such as a road run or a vacant yard shift, and a senior driver displaced from a location where a van remains can bump a junior one. The union can also petition to keep the pay of a driver with 10 or more years who transfers in a reduction in force, while a driver who wants to relocate can, after telling management and the union, bump into a job elsewhere in the unit, case by case.

A layoff under that agreement can leave a way back to the job. A driver with at least six months of service who's laid off keeps recall rights if a written notice to reopen the old position reaches Hallcon within a year of the layoff, and an opening at a location goes first to laid-off drivers who worked there before it goes to senior drivers still on site. Hallcon is to give written notice of a layoff as soon as notice is available, with a copy to the union steward except in an emergency, and to recall drivers by calling and emailing the last phone number and email address it has. The driver then has seven days to say they'll use the recall, and a driver who doesn't report within five working days of a certified letter to return can lose seniority. If you're laid off from a covered job, keeping the phone number, email and mailing address Hallcon has for you current is worth the few minutes it takes.

Colorado's closure arrived alongside Hallcon's own job ads. Hallcon's Colorado filing named closure as the reason for the layoffs at the five addresses it listed, yet the Denver Gazette found the company still advertising van-driver jobs in all five towns, from a listing dated December 2024. The paper couldn't learn what prompted the layoffs or whether that listing was still active, and Hallcon didn't respond to it. At least some of the workers appeared to be represented by UE Local 1477, which is based in Trinidad, the paper reported. If you lost one of those jobs and want to keep driving crews, a listing like that one is a lead whose status is worth confirming before you count on it.

In San Francisco, Hallcon's shuttle jobs moved with Meta's office plans. Meta said it had adjusted its transportation programs to fit a hybrid workforce, and a vice president of Teamsters Bay Area Local 853 told CNBC that all four of Meta's shuttle vendors were losing people. California's WARN report and the next year's report typed all three of Hallcon's Bay Area notices as permanent layoffs. The recall and bumping rules in Hallcon's agreement with UE come from a contract covering drivers at or out of rail yards, so they don't set terms for the commuter-shuttle sites behind those notices.

For the three states on Hallcon's WARN tracker notices, the claim rules are on our California, Colorado and New Mexico unemployment benefits pages.