Winnipeg Transit drivers, members of ATU Local 1505, will take their first job action on Tuesday, May 14th. Drivers will not be enforcing fares tomorrow. Essentially, if you don’t pay, drivers will look the other way. Members of ATU 1505 and community volunteers will leaflet bus stops today to inform transit riders of Tuesday’s job Continue readingWinnipeg transit drivers not enforcing fares on Tuesday
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By Zaid Noorsumar In an opinion piece by members of the transit advocacy group TTCriders written in January, the authors warned that the Eglinton East LRT could be a casualty of Doug Ford’s transit plan. Shelagh Pizey-Allen and Suhail Barot wrote that in partnering with developers to build transit – as this government plans to Continue readingFord’s transit delays: Riders organizing against takeover
Rank & File Radio – Prairie Edition on CKUW 95.9 FM provides Canadian labour news and analysis across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. This show is an independent partner with RankandFile.ca and supported by listeners like you through the annual CKUW funding drive, Patreon and UFCW Local 832. www.patreon.com/rfradioprairie Broadcast Date: March 3, 2019. It is Continue readingOrganizing for a National Transit Strategy Post-Greyhound | Justin Panos, ATU Canada
By Donna Burman TTC worker and ATU Local 113 member Having a state or province run the subways is a big mistake. In Baltimore, Maryland they already have such a system they are trying to move away from. After multiple incidents in Baltimore, including safety issues, a report made it clear that the only way Continue readingDon’t steal our subway!
By Donna Burman, TTC employee Getting leaner and more efficient sounds great. It may even save taxpayers money. There have been endless cutbacks to all kinds of programs since the election. But still the province continues its endeavour to add subways to their burden by uploading Toronto Transit Commission into provincial control, presumably Metrolinx, the Continue readingThe Downward Spiral of Uploading Toronto’s Transit
On this week’s edition of Rank and File Radio – Prairies Edition, host Emily Leedham speaks with Aleem Chaudhary, President of the ATU Local 1505 representing Winnipeg Transit workers, and Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land, Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg, and Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Continue readingWinnipeg transit safety and policing
By Herman Rosenfeld Many of us in the Toronto public transit movement are looking upon the June 7 Ontario provincial election with a combination of gloom and a glimmer of possibility. Gloom, because the lead that the Ford-led PC’s have promises to signal a roll back of many of the important but moderate gains we Continue readingFighting for Toronto public transit in the provincial election
“We hadn’t set up a new organization in order to be cannibals in the Canadian labour movement.” — Bob White, first president of the Canadian Auto Workers (now Unifor). By Doug Nesbitt, Gerard Di Trolio, Evan Johnston and David Bush Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, has left the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). Unifor’s website Continue readingUnifor-CLC split demands unity from below
Editor’s introduction: This is the second half a two-part series on how austerity has damaged public transit. In this article Blake McCall, a Hamilton bus operator and ATU Local 107 member, and Caitlin Craven, a CUPW Local 548 and local Fight for $15 and Fairness organizer, examine how decades of underfunding has undermined Hamilton’s transit Continue readingHamilton transit in the Age of Austerity
By Donna Burman Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 113 is demanding safety in the workplace after a contract worker hit a unionized TTC employee with 30 years on the job on August 15, 2017. This was the latest incident involving contract workers that brings to the forefront that observing cost puts workers safety at risk. Continue readingSafety is the cost of contracting out at the TTC
By Evan Johnston Transit workers in Hamilton have launched a new campaign to keep the city’s public transportation system — and specifically, the city’s newly approved Light-Rail Transit (LRT) — under public control. The campaign, “Keep Transit Public,” was launched on June 15 by Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 107, the union representing drivers, maintenance workers, Continue readingHamilton fights to keep transit public
By Donna Burman The count is now raised to eight positive test results as random drug and alcohol testing heads into its third month at the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). Recent court decisions have determined that testing is non-evasive as clearly seen in the loss of appeal for the injunction filed by Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local Continue reading8 and rising: Effects of TTC’s random alcohol and drug testing