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Panel awards raises to 3,000 MTA bus drivers and other workers

More than 3,000 MTA bus drivers and other workers will get 11% raises under a contract awarded by an arbitration panel.

Mother's Against Drunk Driving (MADD) & ATU Join Forces to Fight Drunk Driving

Local 1229 ratifies deal with Acadian Lines

Union members have ratified a deal that ends a five-month lockout at Acadian Coach Lines.

CEOs made 231 times more than workers did in 2011

The EPI has found that CEO compensation has grown exponentially in recent decades, while worker compensation has been relatively stagnant.

11,000 transit, ground passenger trans. jobs lost in April

ATU urges Transportation Conference Committee to keep Senate provisions, as job loss highlights mass transit crisis across country.

Driving a Bus is Hazardous to Your Health

Recent innovative research by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) shows that bus drivers and other "passenger transit workers" suffer greater rates of illness than workers in many other industries and occupations.

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They Call Themselves the Troublemakers Union

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Over the weekend of May 4-6, 1500 union members, workers’ center activists and working class rebels gathered at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Rosemont IL for the biennial Labor Notes Conference.

May 8, 2012 at 11:00 am

What about bus users?

City leaders need to keep the bus system from being sliced and diced to death.

Transit union in talks with ECAT management

A local union says the management company that runs the Escambia County Area Transit system has helped defuse a recent dispute about employee hours and benefits.

Union: Tentative agreement reached in LIFT talks

According to a Monday morning press release from ATU Local 757 and First Transit returned to the bargaining table on May 9 and 10. They reached a tentative agreement at must now be ratified by the union drivers.

ECAT drivers' union says new management company 'waging war'

The ATU Local 1395, filed a grievance Thursday against First Transit, accusing the company of revoking health, dental, vision and life insurance benefits for its part-time bus drivers after initially agreeing to provide them.

RT @MADDOnline: MADD calls for sobriety checkpoints, interlocks for 1st offenders & advanced tech development. #ReachingZero

Saving a transit system and turning the tide for the future of a mid-sized city http://t.co/Lszp41aE #masstransit #1u

Are you fired up? "Scott Walker Ally: Collective Bargaining Rollback Was 'Middle Ground' For WI GOP" http://t.co/6bEkCaxC #1u #wiunion

Panel awards raises to 3,000 MTA bus drivers and other workers http://t.co/MGfNnuWP #masstransit #1u #labor

RT @Tony_Tracy: Thank a Union! 36 Ways Unions Have Improved Your Life: http://t.co/X7jNotlk | #cdnpoli #topprog #p2 #canlab #1u #tcot #union

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