“They need to see it because the same workers that are walking in through these doors—the day will come when they get a letter that says, ‘We no longer need your service because we’re going to privatize,'” says Latrice Smith
· dcist.comATU 689 has been at odds with Transdev ever since Metro contracted its Cinder Bed Road Bus garage to the company last year.
· www.wusa9.comThe union that represents Fairfax Connector drivers indicated that a strike is possible amid an ongoing labor dispute with Transdev, the operations contractor of the Fairfax Connector service.
· www.restonnow.comThe union representing OC Transpo drivers says the city's failure to fill more than 30 Para Transpo positions left vacant for more than a year has had a major impact on the service.
· ca.news.yahoo.com“We are here today to ask Governor Cuomo to sign S6208 and reinstate the EPP,” said Michael Cordiello, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181,the city’s largest school bus workers union.
· www.nydailynews.comLocal 279 says it's becoming increasingly concerned about the physical safety and mental well-being of its members as passenger frustration over the problem-plagued LRT system threatens to boil over.
· CBCThe agreement, which was ratified by the Local's members is for a three-year contract that includes salary increases, signing bonuses and a generous healthcare plan.
· FoxNorman will now have the necessary money to fully cover its public transit system after voters approved a one-eighth percent sales tax Tuesday.
· www.masstransitmag.comUnion president Eric Tuck told Global News although drivers turned down the city’s latest offer, his bargaining team is still willing to head back into contract talks.
· globalnews.caAmalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 107 president Eric Tuck says he’ll be urging members to reject a city contract officer next week and to provide their negotiating team with a strike mandate.
· globalnews.caWorkers at the privatized Cinder Bed Road bus garage near Washington, DC are on strike as part of a broader labor upsurge for better wages and benefits for themselves — and for better public services for all of us.
· JacobinHe said he tries to remember what the striking workers are going through without paychecks, and the privileges he has as he commutes.
· www.washingtonpost.comThe widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But the full story of why other countries succeed is more complicated.
· www.citylab.com“They pay us $12 less than the average workers here in this area. Our medical benefits, we have to pay a six thousand dollar deductible before we even can have them pay into anything…We can’t afford it,” Smith said.
· www.localdvm.com"Anybody being assaulted while trying to do their job is unacceptable," said Clint Crabtree, president of ATU Local 279.
· www.cbc.ca