transit

  • Bus Drivers Win First Contract After Strike and Lockout at University of Alabama
    By Jake DaSilva
    Mar 9 2010 - 6:40pm

    Bus drivers at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa won a first contract after they were locked out last week following a one-day strike. The deal secures a $1.50 an hour raise and employment security, key sticking points that led to the strike. The drivers endured nine months of bargaining where their employer—a contractor—demanded at-will employment and frozen wages.

  • Budget Woes Prompt Privatization Fights in Public Transit
    Evan Rohar
    Mar 1 2010 - 4:00pm

    As budget-butchering legislators and executives slash away at public services and public workers, they’re reaching for a familiar tactic: privatization. Bus drivers at UC Berkeley have led the push back, scoring a victory against outsourcing in late February.

  • How Dare You, Transit Striker!

    Hey, did you hear about the World Series fans that were nearly stranded in South Philadelphia due to a transit shutdown? Probably. See any stories on striking drivers or mechanics, or their struggles to endure? Probably not. The pressure on the union during Philadelphia's transit strike is relentless.

  • New York Taxi Workers Strike over Tracking Devices

    Mark Brenner

    It was a good day to ride your bike in the Big Apple. New York City cabbies launched a two-day strike on September 5, leaving the city's streets quiet and would-be passengers scrambling...


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  • Machinists Strike Boeing over Pensions, Health Care, Lost Jobs

    Don Grinde

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  • Bus Strike Ends in Victory for Driver-Rider Alliance

    by David Bacon

    For decades, Los Angeles’ bus drivers and bus riders have looked at each other across the fare box with suspicion. The Metropolitan Transit Authority has told riders that drivers’ salaries were behind the pressure to raise fares. Drivers, in their turn, got the message that the only way to keep their jobs secure and make a living was to stick it to riders in the fare box.


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  • L.A. Bus Drivers Fight to Keep Good-Paying Union Jobs

    by Leah Samuel

    "We're asking for what's been in past contracts," said striking Los Angeles transit worker Tim Del Cambre. "We've had work rules for over 20 years that guarantee decent wages and a quality of life for workers. They guaranteed an eight-hour day and 40-hour work week, and now they want to take it all away."


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