The driver of an MTA express was beaten by a customer in a dispute over an electric scooter Monday morning in Grasmere, according to police.
Fed up with unfair labor practices and poor treatment by their employer MV Transportation, ATU Local 689 members working at the MetroAccess Call Center in Hyattsville voted overwhelmingly in favor of authorizing a strike if necessary.
Carlos Santos, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 113, made the demand this week after two passengers allegedly assaulted a female bus driver and damaged a bus following a verbal dispute on Sunday evening.
The driver tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, but the bus she was driving continued to be on the road hours later, said Ken Wilson, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 508.
Transit workers in Airdrie voted to ratify their collective agreement yesterday with 75% support after over a year of negotiations. Airdrie transit workers joined the ATU last year after a successful organizing drive by ATU Local 987.
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) is providing a one-time $3,500 COVID-19 pandemic payment to its frontline and represented employees, pending approval by the agency's board later this month.
ATU NYC Locals 726-Staten Island, 1056-Flushing, 1179-Queens, and 1181-New York announce endorsement of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams for NYC Mayor
Also in attendance were Senator Bob Casey, Rep. Conor Lamb (PA-17) and Local 85 member and bus operator Karima Howard.
Watch ATU Local 1555-Oakland, CA, Sister Yolanda Moreno on an AFL-CIO virtual event on fighting for safety and protections for frontline workers during the pandemic and the AFL-CIO’s annual Death on the Job report.
As CATA wastes $60 million in relief funds on office furniture, CATA workers protest for fair contract
With strike authorization still in hand and snow and COVID ebbing, more than 200 Local 1005-Minneapolis, MN members rallied outside contract negotiations with a state mediator to tell Metro Transit “Time’s Up” for a new contract
