Cussed at, spit on, and attacked. Not situations you normally associate with public transportation, but all of which occurred on MARTA buses in 2021. They are problems drivers say make their job, and your ride, dangerous.
· CBS 23Hampton Roads Transit and its unionized workers agreed to a new contract that increases base pay for bus operators and offers incentive pay for attendance
· Daily PressThe union representing TTC workers is calling for more guards at the back of subway trains — not necessarily more Toronto Police officers — in the face of what’s said to be a rise in assaults over the past year within the public transit system.
· torontosun.comThe leaders of the two largest public transit unions in the nation, the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) and the Transport Workers Union (TWU), are calling on Congress to include hazard pay for frontline workers in an upcoming reconciliation bill.
·The ATU is calling on transit agencies, private transit companies, and motorcoach carriers in the U.S. and Canada to implement emergency preparedness plans after the tragic mass shooting that took the lives of our Local 265-San Jose, CA, brothers.
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