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Toronto-Area Transit Workers Strike against Privatization
Mischa Gaus
| December 1, 2011
“The problem is privatization,” says Toronto-area transit union leader Bob Kinnear, so bus drivers are on strike to put that problem in front of the public. Photo: ATU Local 113.
“The problem is privatization,” says Toronto-area transit union leader Bob Kinnear, so bus drivers are on strike to put that problem in front of the public.
THE ATLANTA PUBLIC SECTOR ALLIANCE
OUR POSITION ON REGIONAL TRANSIT GOVERNANCE
The Atlanta Public Sector Alliance is a grassroots, human rights organization that is dedicated to protecting, restoring, and expanding the public sector. We believe that the public sector is designed to provide basic human rights and quality of life to all people. Governmental authorities provide services that are owned and operated in the public interest. The public sector is fundamental to the functioning of our society.
Legislators to meet on regional transit
By Ariel Hart
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
3:25 p.m. Tuesday, November 29, 2011
A state panel that is drawing up a bill to govern regional mass transit will meet on Dec. 9 to hear public comment.
Gov. Nathan Deal convened the group, the Transit Governance Task Force, to suggest legislation to coordinate the Atlanta region’s patchwork of mass transit agencies.
1. It Helps Set MARTA Up for Privatization. The TIA does not fund MARTA operations, and does not explicitly oppose privatization. Without funding, MARTA will continue to go broke. Those who would privatize MARTA need the transit agency to be in a dire financial crisis –which the TIA helps create via the denial of funding- in order to persuade the public to privatize –which the TIA implicitly supports. Privatization is bad for everyone.
Recession hits transit budgets despite rising need
By BOB SALSBERG - Associated Press | AP – 26 mins ago
BOSTON (AP) — On a chilly evening in February, a commuter train bound for Worcester, Mass., broke down outside Boston, transforming passengers' usual 80-minute commute into a four-hour nightmare.
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The Atlanta Public Sector Alliance opposes MARTA fare increases, service cuts, and the Transportation Investment Act. The proposals by the MARTA management, and the Transportation Investment Act respectively, will make life worse for transit riders in general, and the transit dependent ones in particular.
Get on the Bus: Transit Union Looks to Ally with Riders
Paul McLennan
| April 13, 2011
Responding to the near-universal threat of budget cuts and privatization, transit workers and transit riders are learning how to work together, like these Toronto activists did. Photo: ATU Local 113.
More than 100 transit activists met in Washington, D.C. in mid-March for the Amalgamated Transit Union’s “boot camp,” learning how to build coalitions between transit workers and transit riders.
MARTA MOBILITY
Riders and Workers United!
Concerned Transit Riders for Equal Access &
Atlanta Public Sector Alliance
To learn from each other
Discuss strategies for working together
SATURDAY, APRIL 8th
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Shepherd Clinic
2020 Peachtree Rd. NE - Atlanta
6th Floor - Marcus Building
Classroom C
Who Are Those "Greedy" Public Workers? Blacks and Women
New America Media, News Report, Nina Martin, Posted: Mar 01, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO—GOP attacks on public-sector jobs and unions will disproportionately affect blacks and women, according to a new analysis of employment data by a labor-policy specialist from the University of California, Berkeley.