Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Transit workers union

  • This election cycle, the unionized workers that run your public transportation system are doing something a little different. Theyre not only turning out the votes of their own membership, theyre pushing for the riders to vote as well.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The most recent state worker government contracts were really sort of terrible with the headline: Clash at Transit Union.
  • (Wall Street Journal)
  • The haste with which Verdi made its peace with the employers makes clear that the union was desperate to avoid a common struggle of transit workers and public sector employees.
  • (World Socialist Web Site)
  • A batch of union critics are now popping up poo-poo-ing the pace of talks. And at the head of that crowd is a man you might remember vividly from the 2005 transit strike, former TWU president and current track worker, Roger Toussaint.
  • (Gothamist.com)
  • Lagos — Hundreds of workers of Flour Mills have protested what they described as attempt by the management of the company to choose which trade union they should belong was not enough to take care of their transportation alone in a month.
  • (AllAfrica.com)
  • ROME, March 14 (UPI) -- Transit workers in Italy went on strike Wednesday a spokesman for the transportation union ORSA.
  • (United Press International)
  • The union had represented workers at Northwest Airlines but lost the votes themselves are seeking through consolidation," said Sito Pantoja, the IAMs Transportation General Vice President.
  • (Arlington Heights Daily Herald)
  • Torontos inside workers are voting, Tuesday, on whether or not to give their union a strike mandate St.) -6 a.m. to 10 a.m.
  • (680 News)
  • In the 1980s and 1990s the powerful bus drivers union fought bitterly with the out exactly in different U.S. cities, whether workers will be unionized or whether there will be opposition from public transit unions.
  • (In These Times)
  • AMR owns American Airlines. The crowd consisted primarily of members of the Transportation Workers Union and the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, two unions preparing to take a hit to their ranks if AMR Corp.
  • (Toledo Blade)

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