Fairfax Connector workers reach Tentative Agreement with Transdev, avert strike
This is a victory not only for our workers, but our riders and community. This shows that Together We Fight, Together We Win,” said International President John Costa
This is a victory not only for our workers, but our riders and community. This shows that Together We Fight, Together We Win,” said International President John Costa
Wage disputes led some transit workers to wear black under their eyes in protest this week.
Founded in 1926 North Carolina by 13 African American Jitney bus drivers as a way to provide transportation to their neighborhoods. Considered as the largest African American run bus company, and operated until 1972.
The passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019 (H.R. 2474) by the House of Representatives promises to restore the power of workers to organize and negotiate on the job.
“Joe Biden has been a true champion of working Americans throughout his career,” said ATU International President John A. Costa. “We know he will fight to rebuild the middle class by restoring the rights of Labor...
Toronto Transit Commission riders will be at much higher risk if the TTC follows through with its plan to eliminate one of the two crew members on a subway train, says Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113, which represents more than 12,000 TTC workers.
Murphy’s budget proposal, introduced Tuesday, would increase the state’s subsidy to operate the agency’s train, bus and light rail system by $132 million, to a total of almost $600 million.
Reports of crime on the CTA have doubled from 2015 through 2018. Kenneth Franklin, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308, shares some tips for staying safe on public transportation.
What he did then is the total opposite of what he is saying he will do now. He caused a spiraling downward of wages and benefits,” said ATU Local 1181 President Michael Cordiello.
“All those federal funds get utilized for transit projects like buying buses, rehabilitation of existing equipment. There’s money in the budget for rehabilitating the plaza and the tunnel up here,” Cute said. “We feel that shouldn’t change.”
In the wake of a string of high-profile acts of violence on the CTA, Chicago police are adding “additional resources” to the public transit system, including SWAT officers deployed to train lines.
