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Rail News Home Union Pacific Railroad 6/18/2021 Rail News: Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad yesterday announced new diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) giving goals, as well as a summer tour that features a new commemorative locomotive dedicated to diversity.UP believes DEI principles are critical to its success. As a result, UP officials are asking every program or organization that it supports financially through its Community Ties Giving Program to demonstrate a commitment to DEI principles by 2023, company officials said in a press release.The company views its goal of reaching 100% of DEI-aligned grants as a multiyear effort.Meanwhile, UP's new "We are One" tour will begin tomorrow, Juneteenth Day, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.The brightly colored locomotive will start its 2021 journey in Houston, Texas. UP No. 1979 is only Union Pacific's 18th commemorative locomotive. It honors the company's nine employee resource groups (ERGs) and the work they do to support DEI. The unit commemorates the year UP's first ERG ‚ the Black Employee Network, was established in 1979.