www.kansas.com
City leaders need to keep the bus system from being sliced and diced to death.
www.pnj.com
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.
www.portlandtribune.com
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.
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.
www.calgarysun.com
City transit workers will hit the rails with wage increases, as a result of a ratified collective agreement.
The ATU Local 1395 said the company, First Transit, had agreed to provide its part-time bus drivers with insurance in March. After signing those employees up, First Transit revoked the benefits without notice Thursday, the union's grievance says.
www.washingtonpost.com
Thanks to high gas prices, more and more Americans are riding buses and trains. But thanks to budget crunches, transit agencies are actually cutting services at the exact same moment.
The Bulletin
Drivers on TriMet's door-to-door Lift service for the disabled and frail, elderly people in Multnomah and Washington counties have suspended a strike and say they will go back to the bargaining table.
www.austinchronicle.com
For the bus drivers over at ATU 1091, the investigation has just begun into why Cap Metro picked McDonald Transit Associates and MV Transportation to run its fixed-route and MetroAccess bus services (respectively), to the tune of $520 million.
blog.oregonlive.com
Drivers on TriMet’s door-to-door Lift service for the disabled and frail elderly people are on strike Wednesday morning over a long-simmering labor dispute with the company contracted to operate the buses.
