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Category: Bus
Bus rep victory is UTU’s 23rd in 41 months
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. PERRIS, Calif. – Bus drivers and mechanics of Southland Transit here have voted “UTU, yes” by an almost four-to-one margin. This is the 23rd organizing victory – air, bus and rail — for the UTU sinc [...]
Preserving Medicare: We have a role to play
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Would you accept a job paying $1 million to count out $2 billion in $1 bills? Think again, because working a 40-hour week and counting out $1 per second, you would require 266 years to count out the $2 bi [...]Fight for our futures against labor’s enemies
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. UTU members are stepping up to the plate in the fight to preserve collective bargaining rights, Amtrak, workplace safety, Railroad Retirement, Social Security and Medicare by mounting a counter attack on [...]Charlotte bus drivers vote ‘yes’ for UTU
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The 546 bus operators employed by Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) have voted by more than a 2-1 margin to return to the United Transportation Union. Calvin Studivant, alternat [...]Transport-employee fatigue continues to kill
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. While sleep scientists have established that going to work fatigued is like going to work drunk, there remains a disconnect among those who manage transportation firms. And people are needlessly dying and [...]Union-busting efforts face glare of sunlight
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis coined the term, “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.” Indeed, sunlight cast by labor-union members on the dark-of-night action by political extremis [...]At 97, former UTU president still leads fight
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Former UTU International President Al Chesser (1972-1979) is now 97 years old, and the fire in his belly in support of organized labor has never dimmed. The following was written by Chesser in response to [...]