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Rosa Parks Was 'IN' Are You? JUNE / MAY 2 0 1 2 www.atu.org Rosa Parks was ‘IN’ are you? (see page 3) OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION | AFL-CIO/CLC INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS LAWRENCE J. HANLEY International President NEWSBRIEFS ROBERT H. BAKER International Executive Vice President OSCAR OWENS International Secretary-Treasurer Labour minister congratulates ATU, Acadian Coach Lines for reaching INTERNATIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS agreement. Canadian Labour Minister Lisa RODNEY RICHMOND Raitt applauded Acadian Coach Lines LP and Local 1229 New Orleans, LA – [email protected] for ratifying a new collective agreement. “I commend LARRY R. KINNEAR Acadian Coach Lines LP and the ATU, Local 1229, for Ashburn, ON – [email protected] reaching a negotiated agreement,” said Raitt. “Strong JAVIER M. PEREZ, JR. labour-management relations benefit our country’s Kansas City, MO – [email protected] economic prosperity and the economic security of RICHARD M. MURPHY Canadians.” The agreement was reached with the Newburyport, MA – [email protected] assistance of a mediator from the Labour Program’s Federal BOB M. HYKAWAY Mediation and Conciliation Service. – Wall Street Journal Calgary, AB – [email protected] CHARLES COOK Petaluma, CA – [email protected] Mayors ask Ottawa for more cash to WILLIAM G. McLEAN improve roads, water, transit. Canada’s Reno, NV – [email protected] mayors say many cities are barely scraping by JANIS M. BORCHARDT Madison, WI – [email protected] and need more money from the federal government for improvements to roads, water and transit. The mayors PAUL BOWEN Canton, MI – [email protected] say cities currently get back only eight cents on the KENNETH R. KIRK tax dollar and it isn’t enough. “We have racked up an Lancaster, TX – [email protected] enormous infrastructure deficit last estimated at $123 GARY RAUEN billion six years ago. We know that that’s grown,” said Clayton, NC – [email protected] Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson. – The Province MARCELLUS BARNES Flossmore, IL – [email protected] RAY RIVERA TTC warns of woes on Eglinton. A fight Lilburn, GA – [email protected] for control of the construction of Toronto’s YVETTE SALAZAR new light-rail network has taken a new turn Thornton, CO – [email protected] with the Toronto Transit Commission publicly challenging GARY JOHNSON, SR. Cleveland, OH – [email protected] the province’s promise to complete the Eglinton ROBIN WEST Crosstown line by 2020. The TTC is urging Metrolinx, Rexdale, ON – [email protected] the provincial transit authority for the GTA, to set a JOHN COSTA new “realistic” target of 2022 or 2023 to finish the Kenilworth, NJ – [email protected] $4.9-billion, 19-kilometre line, saying that the original CHUCK WATSON deadline can’t be met without massive disruption. Syracuse, NY – [email protected] – The Globe and Mail INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES ANTHONY WITHINGTON Sebastopol, CA – [email protected] DENNIS ANTONELLIS INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS EMERITUS Spokane, WA – [email protected] International President Jim La Sala, ret. CLAUDIA HUDSON International President Warren George, ret. Oakland, CA – [email protected] International Executive Vice President Ellis Franklin, ret. STEPHAN MACDOUGALL International Executive Vice President Mike Siano, ret. Boston, MA – [email protected] CANADIAN COUNCIL Subscription: USA and Canada, $5 a year. Single copy: 50 cents. All others: $10 a year. Published bimonthly by the Amalgamated Transit Union, Editor: Shawn Perry, Designer: Paul A. Fitzgerald. Editorial Office: 5025 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington, DC STAN DERA 20016-4139. Tel: 1-202-537-1645. Please send all requests for address changes to the ATU Registry Dept. ISSN: 0019-3291. PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40033361. RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO: APC Postal Rexdale, ON - [email protected] IN TRANSIT | 3 Logistics, LLC, PO Box 503, RPO, West Beaver Creek, Richmond Hill ON L4B 4R6. May/June 2012 LARRY HANLEY, INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT Proof We Can Win - Even In Tough Times he results of the June 5th recall election in campaign in full swing, fighting for better service. The TWisconsin may have surprised you already. local has started a Facebook page (Save Our Bus Saint Polls indicate that working people – including union John) and is building a community-based campaign. members - voted to keep Republican Scott Walker as They recognize the value of reaching out through social governor. But his anti-worker policies will be in check, and other media. now, because one Republican Senator was successfully recalled – giving Democrats majority control of the This is the work of the Union and it cannot be done state senate. without you volunteering your time to help. Your Union is under attack. There is simply not enough money to pay staff to fight the onslaught of anti union-activity. Big Surprise Thanks for the compliments about my last column, in which I discussed the courage of Rosa Parks in her fight A bigger surprise you might not know about is covered for transit equality. When she was asked why she didn’t on page 18 of this magazine. That is the story of the little just take a seat in the back of the bus, she said she could town of Weston, a 16,000-person village in the shadow not betray “the martyr,” her reference to Emmett Till, of Wausau, WI. The town had lost its’ small transit the 14-year-old found dead in the Tallahatchie River system to budget cuts last January. a few moths before. I want to remind you that Rosa While a majority of Weston’s voters chose to keep Parks was NOT paid “lost time” for her efforts that Governor Walker in office, a coalition effort ATU day in Montgomery. She challenged power because she helped lead convinced a majority of those same voters believed in equality. to restore the town’s transit system. Rosa Parks was “IN”. Are you? I encourage you to read the story about Weston because it is living proof that we can win and expand transit when we work with the riders, even in tough times. In city after city our members are working with transit passengers in campaigns to fight to save and expand their transit service. COVER: On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, The story about Baton Rouge and the successful Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake’s community effort there, and Charleston, SC, Pensacola, order that she give up her seat to make room for a white FL, Providence, RI, and Pittsburgh, PA, where ongoing passenger. Parks’ act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus struggles all involve ATU members reaching out Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil beyond their local union to lead citywide efforts is a Rights Movement. She organized and collaborated with sign that we know how to turn around a bad situation. civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP, and Dr. Martin Luther Local 1182 President Tom McGraw in Saint King, Jr., a new minister in town who gained national John, NB, has a passenger and community organizing prominence in the civil rights movement. IN TRANSIT | May/June 2012 3 MAY/JUNE 2012 www.atu.org Vol. 121, No. 3 2 International Officers & General Executive Board NEWS Briefs ALBERTANS GIVE TORIES ANOTHER MAJORITY 3 International President’s Message: Proof We Can Win - Even In Tough Times 4 Index Page 7 5 International Executive Vice President’s Message: What Difference Does It Make? 6 International Secretary-Treasurer’s Message: Not All Good News for the GOP in Wisconsin 8 Canadian Agenda: PC Labour Critic Wants to Make Ontario ‘Right-to-Work’ Province 9 ATU, Coalition Win First-Ever Transit Tax Vote in Baton Rouge I’M IN - VOLUNTEERS ARE THE ESSENTIAL No Transit Tax Ballot in Denver This Year ENGINE OF LOCAL, NATIONAL SUCCESS 10 Charleston, SC Local Negotiates While CARTA Considers Cuts Devastating Cuts Planned for Pittsburgh’s Port Authority 12 Pensacola Local “Satisfied” with First Transit - For Now 11 Hamilton Members Go to Arbitration - For More Drivers! Lynx Creating Tiered Wage System in Orlando Members Protest Dirty Work Environment, Rip RIPTA CEO 15 Workers Haven’t Benefited From Productivity Growth in 4 Decades 18 Weston Voters Restore Transit Even As Walker Survives Recall IP VISITS WEST COAST LOCALS 19 Can Detroit Bus Riders Survive Another Round of Cuts? Palm Springs Members Want Same Raise As Management 17 20 Public Transit Riders Pay For Wall Street Windfall 21 Book Review: Shock Doctrine Proves Reliable Guide to Corporate Greed Today 23 ATU, MADD Team Up to Fight Drunk Driving International Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus Ray Wallace Dies 24 ATU, Praises DOT Curbside Crackdown, Urges Overtime for OTR Drivers State Bill Would Regulate NYC OTR Curbside Operators ABOVE & BEYOND: ARLENE WIRES IN ACTION 25 100 Years Ago: Toronto Local Wins 10-Hour, 6-Day Workweek 26 Toronto Area Commuters Willing to Pay More for Transit St. John, NB Members, Acadian Coach End 5-Month Lockout 22 Transit City’s Back, But Who Will Pay to Operate It? 27 Translations (French & Spanish) 30 In Memoriam 32 Are You Too Busy? 4 May/June 2012 | IN TRANSIT IN TRANSIT | May/June 2012 5 BOB BAKER, INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT What difference does it make? ou will find several stories in this In Transit about I show up?” ATU members who have volunteered their time Y I’m sure you already know the answer to that question. to causes that benefit their fellow local members and You make a big difference just by being there. others. This being an election year in the United States, a lot of that volunteer work has been and will be political Ask yourself, “What if Samuel Gomers thought it in nature. My hope is that their stories will inspire you wouldn’t make any difference whether or not he to contribute some of your time to support pro-Labor founded the AFL-CIO? What about labor activists like and pro-transit candidates in either the U.S.
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