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NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2018 ATU locals push national transit strategy on parliament hill INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS LAWRENCE J. HANLEY International President JAVIER M. PEREZ, JR. International Executive Vice President NEWSBRIEFS OSCAR OWENS International Secretary-Treasurer Pedestrian is latest injured in blind spot-related crash in Lancaster, PA INTERNATIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS A preventable crash that injured a Lancaster, PA, pedestrian RICHARD M. MURPHY Newburyport, MA – [email protected] in a crosswalk highlights the dangerous design flaws in urban JANIS M. BORCHARDT that create huge blind spots for drivers. “We are glad this Madison, WI – [email protected] pedestrian was not seriously hurt in this incident. But this accident PAUL BOWEN did not have to happen,” said John Habanec, president of Local Canton, MI – [email protected] 1241-Lancaster, PA, representing workers at Red Rose Transit KENNETH R. KIRK Lancaster, TX – [email protected] Authority (RRTA). “Crosswalks are the industry’s Achilles’ heel, and MARCELLUS BARNES blind spots for operators created by poor bus design are the reason Flossmore, IL – [email protected] why. Yet bus drivers are being unfairly blamed and even disciplined for these preventable accidents.” RAY RIVERA The blind spots are created by poor design and mirror placement that can hide well over a dozen Lilburn, GA – [email protected] pedestrians from a driver’s view. Drivers have to “bob and weave” or “rock and roll” in their seats YVETTE TRUJILLO Thornton, CO – [email protected] to try to make sure their path is clear, but even that often isn’t enough. Buses in Europe don’t GARY JOHNSON, SR. have these design flaws. ATU has been engaged in a union-wide effort to call on transit agencies, Cleveland, OH – [email protected] elected officials, and bus manufacturers to fix bus operator workstations and reduce injuries and ROBIN WEST fatalities from crosswalk crashes. Halifax, NS – [email protected] JOHN COSTA Kenilworth, NJ – [email protected] Defying predictions, US union membership isn’t dropping post-Janus CHUCK WATSON Syracuse, NY – [email protected] The US Supreme Court’s treacherous decision on union dues six BRUCE HAMILTON months ago isn’t having the negative impact on membership New York, NY – [email protected] numbers that anti-union groups hoped it would. In fact, quite MICHELLE SOMMERS the opposite appears to be true, as many unions, including the Brooklyn Park, MN – [email protected] ATU, have seen their ranks grow. “I think the right wing thought JAMES LINDSAY Santa Clarita, CA – [email protected] this would decimate public-sector unions, and they were clearly EMANUELE (MANNY) SFORZA wrong,” says Kim Cook of the Cornell University Worker Institute. , ON – [email protected] Like ATU, many unions have been waging aggressive organizing JOHN CALLAHAN campaigns and urging members to “stick with their union.” However, the forces behind the Janus , MB – [email protected] ruling will not sit silent. They are setting their sights on state legislatures next year with legislation CURTIS HOWARD that will attempt to further erode union power. You can be sure ATU and the labor movement will Atlanta, GA – [email protected] be prepared for the fight. NATALIE CRUZ Lorain, OH – [email protected] INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES DENNIS ANTONELLIS Spokane, WA – [email protected] STEPHAN MACDOUGALL INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS EMERITUS Boston, MA – [email protected] ANTHONY GARLAND International President Jim La Sala, ret. Washington, DC – [email protected] International President Warren George, ret. ANTONETTE BRYANT Oakland, CA – [email protected] International Executive Vice President Ellis Franklin, ret. SESIL RUBAIN International Executive Vice President Mike Siano, ret. New Carrollton, MD – [email protected] MIKE HARMS Pittsburgh, PA – [email protected] Subscription: USA and Canada, $5 a year. Single copy: 50 cents. All others: $10 a year. Published bimonthly by the Amalgamated Transit Union, Editor: David Roscow, Designer: Paul A. Fitzgerald. Editorial Office: 10000 New Hampshire MARILYN WILLIAMS Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20903. Tel: 1-301-431-7100 . Please send all requests for address changes to the ATU St. Louis, MO – [email protected] Registry Dept. ISSN: 0019-3291. PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40033361. RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO: APC Postal Logistics, LLC, PO Box 503, RPO, West Beaver Creek, Richmond Hill ON L4B 4R6. ATU CANADA JOHN DI NINO IN TRANSIT | 3 Maple, ON – [email protected] www.atu.org NOV/DEC 2018 CONTENT Vol. 127, No. 6

16 Joint Industry Councils take next steps 20 Milwaukee bus driver goes above and beyond 21 Maintenance members energized by training 22 Legislative Agenda: Riding the wave? 23 ATU wins ILCA 2018 Labor Media Awards 24 Public transportation use linked to better public health ATU CANADA LOCALS PUSH NATIONAL 11 Toledo Local decries service cuts, praises TRANSIT STRATEGY ON PARLIAMENT HILL plan for citizens’ transit task force 25 Winnipeg Transit suppressing assault reports 26 bus operator honoured for stopping racist tirade 27 Free public transit is gaining popularity in Europe 28 Translations (French) 31 In Memoriam 32 Stay connected with the ATU App BAD PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION KEEPS AMERICANS 17 POOR. THESE FOLKS WON’T TOLERATE IT.

2 International Officers & General Executive Board STAY CONNECTED News Briefs 3 Index page For the latest ATU News and Action Alerts please 4 “Not Just an Ache” report confirms check out the ATU’s social media network operating a bus is painful 5 International President’s Message: Feedback facebook.com/ATUInternational 6 International Executive Vice President’s Message: Open the door to all citizens twitter.com/ATUComm 7 International Secretary-Treasurer’s Message: A sleeping giant is awake youtube.com/user/stpatuorg 8 Can public transit help save the planet? 13 ATU Canada Lobby Days flickr.com/photos/atuinternational/ 14 Stuff the Bus - Locals in the holiday spirit with Stuff the Bus campaigns 15 Local 113, ATU Canada rachet up campaign against upload of TTC

IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 3 “Not Just an Ache” report confirms operating a bus is painful

Another study confirms drivers’ workstations are killing Department. You would think this bus operators. While this comes as no surprise, the report cost would move agencies to find finds bus operators experience significantly higher rates of a solution, but the problem may pain than other US workers. The Mineta Transportation only get worse. According to the Institute study on musculoskeletal pain and discomfort found study, expenditures on workers’ that 85% of operators experienced pain in one or more areas compensation claims do not of the body over the past 12 months, compared to 55% in paint the whole picture. The gaps the general population. The research study of about 1,000 between being prevented from operators at King County Metro in Seattle, WA, showed doing normal work (51%), particular areas of concern for operators are the neck, medical visits for pain (60%), and shoulders, lower back, knees and generally the right side of filed claims (19%) shows that there are huge unrealized the body. These results support findings from other studies on costs in workers’ compensation claims that are not musculoskeletal pain and injury in bus operators. being filed.

While the pain and suffering bus operators are forced to Our industry has failed to respond to this epidemic of live and work through should convince agencies to do injuries, and the costs are staggering. The physics are better, they consistently refuse responsibility and continue clear and well understood. Conestoga wagon suspension to purchase and roll out buses that are injuring operators systems, passive seats, and high-effort steering, plus endless and passengers. From poor workstation design to abysmal bobbing and weaving to mitigate huge blind spots, are all air filtering, these bus design deficiencies are coming at a unnecessary hazards to us, the public and agency budgets huge cost to operators and agencies. across North America.

For links to the report and much more information, the ATU International has materials analyzing these problems Operator lower back injuries account and providing solutions at https://atucomm.org/. v for 12.8% of all costs At King County Metro, lower back injuries alone account for 12.8% of all costs, according to research from King County and the University of Washington Ergonomics

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4 November/December 2018 | IN TRANSIT IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 5 LARRY HANLEY, INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT

Feedback

We get some very strong feedback on our publications, How can we improve website, social media, and sometimes our mail, especially Bear in mind, the International Union guides major when we talk politics. Often our political discussions programs. We are not in the garage with Local grievance shift our attention away from the ATU’s central focus - and other issues impacting our members every day. the health and welfare of our members. On the other hand, we stand behind and support the In the recent In Transit magazines, we have heavily focused officers and members who are. We provide research and on the programs we run to advance our members’ interests. training for every Local to better serve our members, We’d like some feedback on those programs. including bargaining research, health, safety, and other assistance every day. We’ve been working on revisions and improvements to make these programs the best they can be. I’m thinking But, we want to hear from you – our members – on how about training, safety on the job, health issues of transit we can better serve you. So, if you have a minute workers, blind spots on buses, bathroom breaks, assaults or two, send us a short note telling us how we can on our members and more. Whatever has caught your improve. Send your suggestions, comments, and ideas v eye that would help us think about the future of these to [email protected]. programs for our membership.

In December, we held a training with a diverse group of maintenance workers with a wide range of job titles and experience levels, creating an innovative, hands- on learning experience for all (see page 21). This winter, we are running two more separate maintenance trainings at the Tommy Douglas Conference Center. During these trainings we are trying to learn more about the current and emerging issues impacting our non-driving members and their needs.

IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 5 JAVIER PEREZ, JR., INTERNATIONAL EXEC. VICE PRESIDENT

Open the door to all citizens

We encourage Locals and members to be active in their normal high school experience no serious problems, good communities. Members who do so build good will for family and such. Then after high school he couldn’t find our Locals. More importantly they experience the a job He basically ended up becoming a drug runner for satisfaction of being part of the fabric of the places we a street gang. He was just a young kid and did it for a call home. I spend some time with a community agency number of years. Well he was caught, and arrested a first focusing on citizens returning from our prison system. time and they said no criminal record we are going to let you off the hook. He was arrested second time and they Returning Citizens face complex health, education, warned him be careful. The third time you know what housing, employment and basic living needs. Without happened it was the third strike. He went before a judge intervention, the likelihood of returning to incarceration and keep in mind he had not spent one day in jail prior to is high. The human cost of recidivism is alarming; ripple this and there were no weapons involved. The judge said, effect of more crime, victimization, loss of productivity, ‘the guidelines were written in a way I have no choice,’.” exacerbated poverty, etc. The challenge is to mobilize The young man was given a life sentence for the sale of assistance from the community to enhance the successful crack cocaine. reintegration back into the community and workforce by former offenders. Fast forward twenty-two years a woman with a great name, a defender in Chicago, My Angel Cody, came to me In November a bipartisan group of senators with the help and convinced me to ask President Obama to commute of a diverse coalition made up of Police, Prosecutors, the his sentence which he did. The man is now working as American Civil liberties Union and yes even President a mechanic for the CTA in Chicago repairing buses, he’s Trump. Put forth a tentative legislative package called the married and has a granddaughter. He would have spent First Step Act. The Act builds on a prison overhaul bill the rest of his life in prison. already passed overwhelmingly by the House by adding changes that would begin to unwind some of the tough- As we build our apprenticeship programs to enhance the on-crime federal policies of the 1980s and 1990s that knowledge, skills and pay of our existing members, let’s incarcerated African-American offenders at much higher not forget to open the door to all our citizens. rates than white offenders. On another note, ATU annually awards a $2,000 vocational Combining new funding for anti-recidivism programs, scholarship to an applicant who will attend a technical the expansion of early-release credits for prisoners and the or vocational post-secondary school. The competition is reduction of certain mandatory minimum sentences, the open to ATU members, their children and grandchildren. compromise bill would help shape the experiences of tens No one has ever applied. Let’s make this the year that of thousands of current inmates and future offenders. changes. v

I attended an event where Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, Please visit www.atu.org for more information and the discussed the same and told the following amazing story. latest ATU news.

“Here was a young man in the city of Chicago. He had a

6 November/December 2018 | IN TRANSIT IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 7 OSCAR OWENS, INTERNATIONAL SECRETARY-TREASURER

A sleeping giant is awake

It’s been more than six months since the U.S. Supreme In Canada, our Locals across the country gathered in Court’s treacherous decision on union dues came down. Ottawa, ON, for a Lobby Day to push an ATU-designed Many pundits were predicting—and many anti-union National Transit Strategy calling for dedicated operational groups and their billionaire backers were hoping—it funding and more (see story on page 11). They met with would be the proverbial final nail in the coffin of U.S. more than 30 Members of Parliament and key Ministers. labor unions. In Alexandria, VA, DASH workers beat back a union Boy were they wrong. busting campaign and overwhelmingly voted to join ATU. The workers and the ATU engaged in an aggressive In fact, quite the opposite appears to be true, as many campaign against the union-busting by mobilizing elected unions, including our union, have seen their ranks grow. officials, labor and transit advocates to support their drive to organize.

Yet we must not rest on our laurels, because the challenges Rediscovering our roots that lie ahead for our union and the labor movement International President Larry Hanley put it best: “At the overall will be greater. ATU, we didn’t take a wait-and-see approach. We knew Those forces behind theJanus ruling—the Koch brothers where the Supreme Court was heading, so we used the and their corporate cronies—will­ not sit silent. They are past year to rediscover our roots, strengthen our locals, setting their sights on U.S. state legislatures in 2019 with and engage tens of thousands of members who have legislation that will attempt to further erode union power. recommitted to the trade union cause. Their power play has awoken a sleeping giant – organized labor.” In Toronto, ON, Premier Doug Ford is steamrolling ahead with his plans to break-up and sell-off the Toronto Transit You know what? I’m not surprised at all. Commission, starting with Toronto’s subway. ATU has a long history of fighting for the rights of our So now, more than ever, we must remain unified and members, riders, and working people. And when our strong. So, get involved and engaged. The future of our backs are against the wall, we fight even harder. union depends on it. v This U.S. Supreme Court decision has actually sparked Please visit www.atu.org for more information and the latest a new generation of ATU activists, making our union ATU news. stronger, more unified, and more engaged.

In Connecticut, our Locals are waging an aggressive campaign to ensure bathroom breaks for our members. Together, the Locals are coordinating their bargaining strategy on bathroom breaks, engaging their members, and educating their riders and the public about this problem.

IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 7 Can Public Transit Help Save the Planet?

Something big is happening in the halls of the U.S. Congress a major economic slowdown. Interest rates, inflation, and this year. A new generation of Democratic lawmakers are international oil prices were drastically rising. A recession proposing—and winning impressive support for—what was on the horizon, and working class North Americans they say would be the largest reorganization of our economy could already feel the pain it would bring. and biggest domestic mobilization of national resources in Like our economy, our environment – both in nature and history. They’re calling it the Green New Deal, and they at work – was suffering, too. By 1979, the U.S. had already want to use it to tackle the two most acute crises facing the passed legislation establishing health and safety standards at world today: economic inequality and climate change. work, protecting drinking water, and banning CFCs that Representing 200,000 transit workers in the U.S. and were creating a hole in the ozone layer. In Canada, labor Canada, ATU is uniquely positioned at the intersection of advocates won paid maternity leave, while environmentalists environmental and economic policy. ATU members fight founded Greenpeace and stopped the Mackenzie Valley to take home our fair share; to win more democracy on Pipeline. But environmental and labor advocates in both the job; and to persuade federal, state, provincial, and local countries knew that harsh realities lied ahead. governments to invest in public transit. Transit workers, In the U.S., nothing made that clearer than the 1979 better than anyone, understand that better transit is necessary nuclear meltdown at the Three Mile Island power plant to protect our environment and improve the lives of our in Pennsylvania, the massive Pemex oil spill in the Gulf of neighbors. Mexico, and the Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill in New The concept of a Green New Deal, one that includes major Mexico. In Canada, the James Bay Project, which would investments, actually isn’t new at all, but a resurgent on to provide clean hydroelectric power but at the cost of movement of young Americans linking environmental and flooding 11,500 square kilometers (~7,100 square miles) of economic justice in ways never done before. wilderness and indigenous land with mercury-contaminated water, moved ahead despite fierce environmental opposition. Canadians and Americans who are a little older have cause to hesitate. After all, the last 40 years has been defined by Facing the combination of an impending economic governments that are unwilling to take bold action to address recession, a resurgent conservation movement, and a global our failing economic system or deteriorating climate. Instead, energy crisis that sent fuel prices skyrocketing, U.S. President they have focused on mining every dollar and resource they Jimmy Carter delivered a lengthy, televised address to the can from working families and the environment. The current American people in July 1979. “All the legislation in the generation of political leaders have been on this dangerous world can’t fix what’s wrong with America,” he said. “What path since 1979. is lacking is confidence and a sense of community.”

In that speech, Carter proposed an “extra $10 billion over Community: The Solution to the next decade to strengthen our public transportation systems.” He also asked Americans to “take no unnecessary Economic and Environmental Crisis trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever In 1979, the economies of the U.S. and Canada were entering you can, to park your car one extra day per week.” He

8 November/December 2018 | IN TRANSIT IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 25 argued that by changing government priorities and A full 60% of the transportation industry’s carbon dioxide personal behavior, Americans could free the country of its emissions come from cars and trucks alone, making private dependence on foreign oil and improve the economy. “Every car travel the least environmentally sustainable way to get act of energy conversation like this is more than just common around. The wave of Uber and Lyft vehicles saturating urban sense,” he said. “I tell you it is an act of patriotism.” markets is only making this problem worse. In New York City alone, for example, taxis and app-based drivers added Carter, of course, went on to lose in 1980 to Ronald Reagan, 600 million more miles traveled to the city’s streets in 2016, who ushered in an era of environmental and economic “only one-third of which were with a passenger in the car,” deregulation that haunts us to this day. Reagan used that reports Curbed. speech to frame Carter as a weak leader, but the 39th President’s words seem eerily prophetic today. ATU members already know that public transit is far more environmentally sustainable. According to the U.S. How can people restore their sense of community, not just Department of Transportation (DOT), heavy rail produces as citizens of a country or neighbors on a continent but as 76% less in greenhouse gas emissions per passenger mile citizens of a world that faces near-certain climate catastrophe? than private cars. That’s followed by systems, which What can people learn from advocates of the Green New produce 62% less and bus systems, which produce 33% less. Deal, who are joining together to demand that the U.S. government invest in a sustainable economy? Those measurements are based on two factors: how the vehicle is fueled and how many people are riding it. Through internal and rider organizing, ATU members are already answering these questions. For every one ATU The U.S. DOT says that a diesel-fueled that has member, there are a hundred riders with whom transit 40 passengers on board produces a whopping 86% fewer workers can rebuild cities in ways that sustain our families emissions than if the same number of people rode in private and our environment. ATU members also know cars. Even if a diesel bus carries as few as seven passengers, transportation better than anyone, and our industry will it’s still polluting less than cars. A heavy rail car, by have to undergo unprecedented changes to reduce its comparison, needs to have at least 19% of its seats filled to impact in the earth’s climate. But what might those changes produce fewer emissions than cars do. to transportation look like? The introduction of electric-powered buses in cities across the U.S. and Canada would improve these ratios drastically. Likewise, states and provinces could aggressively move to Zero Emissions Public Transit change the way they generate electricity used to power subway, To meet goals set internationally by the Paris Climate Accord, trolley, and streetcar systems. Several states and provinces Canada and the U.S. would need to reduce transportation- with rail systems—British Columbia, Massachusetts, New related emissions by a whopping 80% and 86%, respectively, York, and California—are making plans to ditch fossil by 2050. fuel power plants and use wind, solar, tidal, and other zero emission systems to fuel electrified transit instead. To accomplish this, one version of the Green New Deal calls for the introduction of 100% zero emission passenger vehicles by 2030. It also calls for “large investment…to Soaring Public Transit Ridership increase access to safe pedestrian and bicycle travel, low- carbon bus , and electrified light rail” and ending While we can reduce emissions on transit vehicles, it won’t the use of fossil fuels in 100% of “aviation, heavy duty…and make a dent in the industry’s overall emissions if we don’t rail” vehicles by 2050. help get a lot more people out of their cars and onto buses and trains. The New York-based Transit Center argues According to the Center for American Progress, that, “the urgency of reducing carbon emissions demands “transportation, including passenger vehicles, [contributed] broader action, including shifting behavior from driving to 37% of the total energy-related carbon dioxide emitted sustainable modes like public transportation.” in 2016.” In fact, for the first time since 1979, U.S. transportation now emits more carbon dioxide than Unfortunately, transit ridership dropped 2.5% across the electricity production. U.S. in 2017. But transit ridership across Canada, from

IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 9 Vancouver to , increased about 1.3% the same year. Europeans aren’t just investing in better, more sustainable What’s going on here? service. They’re also expanding -free public transit. In addition to Tallinn, Estonia—the largest city in the world Streetsblog writer Angie Schmitt took a closer look. “Falling with free transit—a total of 21 cities in Poland, 20 in France, gas prices, loose auto lending standards, and the rise of ride- and more than a dozen others across the continent have hailing apps like Uber and Lyft are all plausible factors,” for shifted to paying for transit through taxes rather than rider the decline in U.S. ridership, she said. “But that’s no excuse . Five major German cities, the French capital of Paris, for transit service that can’t retain riders. For proof, look no and the entire nation of Luxembourg are heading in that further than Canada.” direction, too. “Canadian cities just have more service per capita than the most comparable U.S. cities,” explains Human Transit writer Christopher Yuen. “Canadian transit isn’t cuter, sexier, or Will We or Won’t We? more ‘demand responsive’ than transit in the U.S. There is simply more of it, so more people ride, so transit is more Public transit, free for all, arriving on time, available around deeply imbedded in the culture and politics.” the clock, and completely powered by the wind, sun, and seas. This may seem like fantasy in 2019. Analysts looking at Seattle, Houston, and Phoenix, the only U.S. cities to see ridership increase, reached the same But it’s no more of a fantasy than an eight-hour workday, conclusion. Riders will stick with a system that is well-funded, a five-day workweek, or the right to speak your mind on expands service, and takes on whole-system improvements, the job was in 1892, when transit workers gathered in rather than just gimmicky one-off projects. Seattle stands Indiana to form what would become the ATU. Yet, out, with a full 70% of trips to its downtown core made by within three decades, Canadian and U.S. transit workers transit, walking, or cycling. accomplished those goals.

In its 2014 report on developing sustainable transit for small It also seemed like a fantasy when President Carter called communities, the Northern Alberta Development Council for Americans to unite and save their communities by (NADC) recommends that political leaders rethink transit ending their dependence on foreign fossil fuels. Yet, here we investment with a “triple bottom line” in mind. “Instead are, forty years later, watching a new generation of activists of the conventional focus on economic bottom lines,” they and elected officials champion a Green New Deal that goes write, local leaders should “give equal weight to economic, further than Carter ever imagined. social, and environmental outcomes.” The NADC says It won’t be easy for transit workers to build a world in public officials should “weight the municipal savings and which politicians make massive investments in transit, expense against the benefits and costs to individuals, families, in which all transit is zero emission, in which millions neighbourhoods, businesses and the eco system.” more of our neighbors take transit every day. But that With a triple bottom line in mind, U.S. and Canadian officials challenge pales in comparison to the sacrifices and disaster can turn to their European counterparts to see what this that await if we dismiss these goals as fantasy. looks like. Berlin, Germany, has a transit system considered Fortunately, ATU members aren’t in this fight alone. “in crisis,” but the city-state’s transport department isn’t Nearly 19 million transit riders, and hundreds of millions passing the buck. In a 350-page paper released in early of people across the continent, are increasingly ready to 2018, policymakers laid out major service expansions and follow our lead. v improvements. Within a matter of years, they promise:

• A bus will arrive every ten minutes on every line • New local and express buses will be introduced in transit deserts • At least nine additional routes will operate 24-hours a day • By 2030, every single bus will run on electricity

10 November/December 2018 | IN TRANSIT IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 11 ATU Canada locals push national transit straTEGy on parliament hill

Since taking the helm as President of ATU Canada in late a plan to move forward, and rebranded the look and feel July, it’s clear that John Di Nino is on a mission to unify of ATU Canada to build greater awareness of ATU Canada our members from coast to coast as One Voice, One and engage members through social media. Canada, One ATU! Our Union and Locals across the country face many challenges, and we are preparing by In addition, recognizing the needs of our Locals and the training our leaders and members, developing a unified campaigns that lie ahead, two National Organizers were strategy, and taking action. hired to effectively support all Locals across Canada. They’re already busy creating a war room to chart ATU Among the biggest issues we face is the fight against privatization, which is threatening transit agencies and other public services across our country. We have seen this fight before, as our Locals in Ontario have been waging a Keep Transit Public campaign in the province.

Charting a course for ATU Canada’s future In October, the ATU Canada Executive Board, in conjunction with the International, began a transition period in order to take ATU Canada in a new direction to better serve our Locals and members across the country.

Over a two-month period, they completed an operational No training session would be complete without a review of ATU Canada, developed leadership training and group portrait... turned selfie!

IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 11 Locals and associated rider groups across the country, and are ready to start moving forward to build alliances across Canada.

Training Another area that deeply needed attention was Stewards Training. We were pleased to receive so many requests for this important training. “Having personally served as a steward for 15 years, I understood the urgency and necessity to deliver this training as soon as possible to give our ATU delegates ready for many meetings with MP’s from across Canada... during ATU Canada Lobby Days and when they members the representation that they expect and rightfully head back to their local communities! deserve,” says Di Nino. In just under two months, ATU Canada, working with the International, started to deliver training, which began in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the Ontario Government’s announcements then headed east to Hamilton, Ontario, training members regarding plans to upload and privatize the TTC, and the from 14 different ATU Locals, more than a third of ATU attempt to make changes to the Metrolinx Act through an Canada Locals. Omnibus Bill 57. More than 30 meetings took place, and ATU leaders were strategically assigned based on their Locals. The strategy ATU hits Parliament Hill for Lobby Day was not only to lobby Members of Parliament from the sitting government but also to lobby opposition leaders In late November, more than 50 members from Locals who could then become advocates and critics for ATU to across Canada came together in Ottawa for Lobby Days. create dialogue in Parliament. To ensure they were prepared to maximize the impact of these visits on Parliament Hill, members received a full Groups of 3-4 ATU members were assigned to each day of essential training on Political Action for Public Sector scheduled meeting to give all ATU leaders lobby experience. Unions, facilitated by Bill Cole, an expert specializing At each meeting, the ATU team left the Minister or MP in negotiation, mediation, and arbitration. Cole is a a document with ATU’s National Transit Strategy calling Senior Research Associate in the Labor & Work Life for Dedicated Operational Funding. In addition, three pre- Program at Harvard Law School. This extensive training addressed letters were left with the Ministers or MPs to provided useful tips, exercises, and role-playing scenarios sign during our meetings. These letters endorsing ATU’s that demonstrated effective ways to keep lobby meeting National Transit Strategy with Dedicated Operational discussions on track. The role playing was instrumental in Funding were addressed to the Minister of Transport, the preparing our teams for the real meetings. Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. The ATU As we’ve heard before, knowledge is power, and it’s essential leaders also invited the Ministers and MPs to attend ATU’s that we continuously educate our members. “Lobby Days meet-and-greet event that evening. was a perfect opportunity to give members political action training, but what we’ve really given them... are take away Overall, the Lobby Days were a great success in making tools that they can go home with and use to lobby in their the voice of ATU Canada and our members heard across own communities,” Di Nino says. Parliament Hill, but it is just the beginning, as we now must engage our members, our riders, and allies in the In preparation for these Lobby Days, ATU Canada fight for more, better, and safer public transit across our arranged meetings for Local leaders from across Canada great nation. v with the most influential Ministers and their Members of Parliament (MPs). The ATU Local leaders were armed with information to discuss key emerging issues impacting ATU and our members, including the Greyhound exit in western

12 November/December 2018 | IN TRANSIT IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 13 ATU Canada Lobby Days

Speaking with MP and her team Meeting with MP Sheri Benson about Meeting with MP to discuss about Greyhound, funding, and convening a the importance of dedicated public transit the need for a Nationalized Transit Strategy National Transit Strategy Task Force. operations funding. and dedicated funding for transit operations!

MP Irene Mathyssen meeting with ATU MP Francesco Sorbara meeting with MP Guy Caron met with ATU Canada Delegates, offering her generous words of President Di Nino and ATU Canada delegates. We are looking forward to encouragement: “Somebody has to stand up delegates and commiting to support working with the NDP to convene a for the workers!” We couldn’t agree more! funding for transit operations. National Transit Strategy Task Force.

MP Cheryl Hardcastle supporting our MP met with ATU Canada MP Kent Hehr spoke with ATU Canada request for a Nationalized Transit Strategy Vancouver delegates and supports a delegates about a Nationalized Transit and dedicated funding for transit operations. Nationalized Transit Strategy. Strategy and the need for dedicated funding for public transit operations.

IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 13 Each holiday season, Locals across the ATU get in the and we just want to thank the people of Thunder Bay for all holiday spirit by giving back to their communities to help that they contributed,” Koza said. those less fortunate. One of the more popular charitable activities is the Stuff the Bus campaign. If your Local has done a Stuff the Bus campaign or other holiday drive for those less fortunate, please let International President Hanley’s office know.v Sixteen years strong for Bloomington (IL) Local’s effort For the sixteenth year, Local 752-Bloomington, IL, teamed up with Connect Transit and community groups for their Stuff the Bus campaign to benefit children admitted to Children’s Home & Aid Crisis Nursery. The nursery provides a safe, temporary environment for children who are at risk of abuse or neglect because of domestic violence, homelessness, mental illness, or other crises. The supplies were donated by shoppers and loaded on a 40-foot-long bus parked outside Walmart and Kroger locations in the area. Local 752-Bloomington, IL

“I enjoy kids and they deserve things that, sometimes, their parents can’t give them,” said one Connect Transit driver, who has volunteered at Stuff the Bus every year.

Record setting haul for Thunder Bay (ON) Local It was a record-setting haul during this year’s Santa Bus Food Drive in Thunder Bay, ON. Members of Local 966-Thunder Bay, ON, collected 10,000 pounds of food Local 966-Thunder Bay, ON and $2,800 in cash. The donations will go a long way, said Reino Pitkanen, chair of the Thunder Bay Food Bank, who said he was blown away by the generosity of the public.

Local President Ken Koza said bus drivers have a front- line view of the need in Thunder Bay, one of the main reasons they put in so much effort to make the Santa Bus a success. “Transit operators, they’re going throughout the community all day. They see what happens in this city. They know there’s a need and we stepped up to help put this on

14 November/December 2018 | IN TRANSIT IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 15 Local 113, ATU Canada ratchet up campaign against upload of TTC

The first six months of Doug Ford’s Ontario have been “The message is clear: a rushed subway upload won’t fix nothing short of dismal for working families. Now the lack of public transit funding,” said the Local. legislation to take ownership of Toronto’s subway system “Breaking apart the TTC means losing Toronto’s could be coming down in early 2019. integrated system and local democratic control. For riders, this troubling scheme will lead to reduced service and In late November 2018, Minister of Transportation Jeff higher fares, all while paving the way for privatization.” Yurek announced the province’s plan for the upload of TTC subway as well as a plan to extend subway lines into MPP for University-Rosedale and Official Opposition the suburbs. Critic on Transit, Jessica Bell, and Toronto City Councillor for Don Valley North, Shelley Carroll, offered words of support and encouragement for the Local’s fight against the TTC upload.

TTCriders, a transit advocacy group, led a day of action against Premier Doug Ford’s scheme to break apart the TTC through his so-called subway “upload.”

In turn, Local 113-Toronto, ON, and ATU Canada have ratcheted up their campaign to defend the subway A fight ATU has seen before system and protect workers and riders from Ford’s transit takeover. The upload thrusts the jobs of thousands of This is a fight ATU has seen before in the province. Local 113 members into uncertainty. ATU Locals in southern Ontario, with the help of ATU Canada and the International, fought back against transit privatization schemes pushed through by Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal administration as a part of our Keep Local educates riders on perils Transit Public campaign. of TTC upload You can bet the ATU is united and ready for this next battle The day after Yurek’ announcement, Local 113 members to Keep Transit Public. v united with passengers, community groups, and stakeholders to discuss the TTC upload, the impact on workers and the public, and actions moving forward.

They quickly hit the subway system armed with signs reading “Respect for Rider,” “Fund the TTC, Don’t Steal It,” and “No 2-Tier Transit” to educate and engage riders on the perils of uploading the TTC.

IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 15 Joint Industry Councils take next steps

The ATU’s Joint Industry Councils (JIC) continues the successful work of taking an international approach to negotiating with private sector employers.

To further their mission the JIC worked to gather all of the information to continue to negotiate with these employers effectively. International staff continued the laborious task of compiling information from transit agencies, employers, and local unions to put together a “War Chest” in an effort to provide locals and negotiators with the weaponry needed to continue their assault on privatization. Locals 19, 128, 1091, 1764, and JIC Chair Al Burns While a good deal of information was already on hand, it had in Dallas, TX, negotiating healthcare on a national been determined through research, field tests, development level with RATPDev. of concepts—and quite a bit of trial and error—that to truly be effective, significantly more would need to be gathered plan with no obligation for the employee to contribute. A and organized. bold ground game supporting negotiations, along with While that work was underway, an organizing effort with back-office costings and collaborations with negotiators in a First Transit property in Alabama was confronted by real-time, all contributed to the successful outcome. significant anti-union action. When the First Transit JIC Next, RATPDev sought to switch to unilaterally a new, met with the company earlier in the year, they stated that self-insured health plan. Upon finding out, International they took a hands-off approach to organizing drives, and President Hanley issued a demand for bargaining. if we met any company resistance, we should let them know. Holding them to this position, the First Transit JIC After several tense weeks of back and forth over information sent a letter to corporate notifying them of the activity and requests and company efforts to drive a wedge between Locals, demanding that they cease immediately. Subsequently, the Locals 19-Colorado, Springs, CO; 128-Asheville, NC; activity stopped, and the workers voted to join ATU. 1091-Austin, TX; 1433-Phoenix, AZ; and 1764-Washington, DC, and the JIC were successful in forcing the company to In early summer 2018, International President Larry the table to negotiate the proposed changes. After several Hanley assembled a team of IVPs and International staff consecutive marathon sessions, the Locals reached an and directed them to meet monthly to develop a more agreement with the company that resulted in a significant aggressive approach to bargaining based on all of the reduction from the company’s opening proposal. information and experience gathered to date. It wasn’t long before the first results came in. More importantly, the solidarity shown by the Locals’ leadership never wavered. They stood together, demanding a deal for all or a deal for none. And in the end, they solidified A big win in Milwaukee their positions by signing off on each other’s agreements, a clear message to the company that things have changed. After a particularly difficult organizing drive in Milwaukee, WI, the next task was to negotiate a first contract between The experiences with National Express and RATPDev Local 998-Milwaukee, WI, and National Express. Working have made it clear that this JIC approach is working. The with the JIC, the Local was able to aggressively deploy more we succeed, the more these companies will learn to the resources, strategies, and information developed to change their approach to bidding and bargaining. Only successfully negotiate a contract that realized tremendous through our solidarity will we influence that change to be wage increases, reductions in employee healthcare to our benefit. v contributions, a mandatory employer contribution to a 401k

16 November/December 2018 | IN TRANSIT IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 17 Bad Public Transportation Keeps Americans Poor. These Folks Won’t Tolerate It. For many, achieving the American Dream depends on access to public transit. By Colin Deppen

This story is a collaboration between HuffPost and The the American Dream is directly tied to the efficacy of the Incline, published online on December 7, 2018. American transportation grid.

Six decades after the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott A 2015 Harvard study confirmed as much, listing and the Freedom Rides in the South, public transit isn’t commute times as the single biggest indicator of whether just a platform for the civil rights struggle. It is the civil a household can pull itself out of poverty. rights struggle. The measure of progress then, in American cities like In cities across the U.S., mass transit remains a lifeline, Pittsburgh, is how well they move their people and how easy an indispensable economic enabler that proves upward they make it. For many people, it’s still not easy enough. mobility so often requires actual mobility to happen.

But advocates and activists say access remains unequal. Fighting for service They describe an imbalance in which those who rely on public transit the most — often the poor and people of Debra Green was cold and hobbled and pushing 60 color — face the greatest hurdles in finding it. years old.

In Pittsburgh, this disparity has given birth to a so-called She’d recently undergone a hip replacement. She’d had transit justice movement and groups like Pittsburghers seven vertebrae fused following a car accident years earlier. for Public Transit. In summing up the group’s platform, And now, cane in hand and en route to see her doctor, she director Laura Wiens put it simply: “We believe transit is was scuttling down a roadside cluttered with construction a civil right and also a human right.” equipment and coated in a layer of ice.

Transit justice groups nationwide share the same “I’ve fallen quite a few times,” Green said of the 20-minute ideological anchor, arguing that for many the premise of walk from her home to the nearest . It was

IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 17 winter in Duquesne, a city of roughly 5,000 mostly ... We couldn’t get to stores or shopping malls. People black residents along the Monongahela River, 10 miles couldn’t get to work.” southeast of Pittsburgh. She says that in her apartment complex, which has 357 Green, who’d moved there from another suburb, had units, “everyone uses the revived bus service, sometimes heard talk of a bus — the 59 — that used to come straight several times a day.” Green added, “As a matter of fact, I am to the housing development she calls home and which sitting at the 59 stop by my complex entrance as we speak.” connected to the downtown Pittsburgh-bound bus she was trying to reach on foot. In a 2016 study, Pew Research Center found that among urban residents, 34 percent of blacks and 27 percent of The Port Authority cut the 59 connection years prior. Hispanics reported taking public transit daily or weekly, Officials say it was because buses could no longer use compared with just 14 percent of whites. The Centers for a private access road, but they also acknowledge a Disease Control found that blacks, Hispanics and Asians systemwide service cut of 30 percent played a role. were “significantly more likely” than whites to have to walk 30 minutes or more a day to reach public transit. Standing there on frozen ground in a typically unforgiving winter wind, Green wanted the bus stop back. Pittsburgh advocates and experts say there’s a simple explanation for the unequal access. “I asked my neighbors why would you all accept this? This isn’t acceptable,” she recalled by phone. “The closed “We put affordable housing in places with little to no mouth never gets fed.” transit,” Chris Sandvig of the Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group said. “And if there is transit, good So Green started circulating petitions and collected luck walking to it, because often there are no sidewalks.” hundreds of signatures from residents who wanted the stop restored. The signatures were combined with As low-income and communities of color are priced out those collected by Pittsburghers for Public Transit and and pushed farther away from transit hubs and city centers, submitted to the Port Authority of Allegheny County in this dynamic only intensifies. late 2017. “Principle transit riders are being displaced into transit On June 17 of this year, the 59 stop returned. deserts around [Allegheny County],” Wiens said. “As long as we don’t address the issue of affordable housing, we have transit riders stranded with no access to basic needs.”

Activism under the transit justice banner involves pushing for affordable or subsidized housing developments built with public transit in mind. It also requires pushing back against government cuts to transit services, an ever-present concern amid declining ridership rates nationwide. Those are just a few of the prongs in play.

In San Francisco, transit justice advocates continue to call for infrastructure projects that build out systems without displacing entire neighborhoods in the process. Debra Green faced a challenge making it to downtown Pittsburgh because of poor bus service in her nearby community of Duquesne, In New York, advocates are fighting for better funding of Pennsylvania. She helped organize an effort that led to the the city’s crumbling subway system and changes in how restoration of a bus stop that once had served her neighborhood. subway policing is applied in communities of color. Photo: NATE SMALLWOOD FOR HUFFPOST In Denver, overlapping transit justice and disability rights movements remain potent forces. “I didn’t call it activism,” Green, now a Pittsburghers for Public Transit board member, said of her petitioning. In Oregon and Oakland, Calif., advocates are pressing for a “I was just doing something because I knew it was needed. better accounting of how transit dollars are spent.

18 November/December 2018 | IN TRANSIT IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 19 will continue to be pushed out,” Wiens said. “And this means principle transit riders being displaced into transit deserts around the county.”

The funding question With any plan to improve public transit, there’s always a question of how to pay for it.

Pittsburghers for Public Transit formed in response to Laura Wiens serves as director of Pittsburghers for Public proposed local transit service cuts in 2009. Roughly Transit, whose board members include Green. Photo: NATE three years later, the group and a coalition of concerned SMALLWOOD FOR HUFFPOST stakeholders celebrated the passage of Pennsylvania’s Act 89, which stabilized transit funding across the commonwealth. But Act 89 funding expires in 2022, And in Pittsburgh, echoes of many of these issues have and Wiens said, “We have a long way to go to be able to sounded in public showdowns over a since-shelved plan ensure we’re not leaving residents behind.” to use armed police as fare enforcement officers and an ongoing proposal to build a $195 million Bus Rapid Wiens said current funding levels must be maintained at Transit system connecting downtown Pittsburgh with the a minimum. Ideally, they’d be increased. thriving academic neighborhood of Oakland — the two biggest jobs centers in town. But either scenario could draw resistance from rural legislators and voters actively opposed to funding public Opponents of the BRT plan have expressed concern over transit systems in the state’s major cities. the potential for service cuts in places like the Mon Valley, where Green lives, to help offset project costs. (Federal Wiens likes to point out that Pittsburgh is one of the funding for the project remains up in the air.) state’s economic powerhouses. And that power relies on public transit: 50 percent of people who work in Bob Allen, director of policy and advocacy campaigns downtown Pittsburgh, one of the densest job centers in with Urban Habitat in San Francisco, said in decades the country, get there via public buses and the city’s light past transit advocacy centered on the issue of federal rail system. funding, on debating the merits of bus networks versus rail networks and pushing policymakers away from car-centric “There are something like 44,000 parking places approaches to city planning. For the most part that remains downtown and 110,000 jobs,” said Katharine Eagan the case. But a social justice component has become more Kelleman, CEO of the Port Authority of Allegheny pronounced recently, he said. County.

“Within the last 10 years it’s been more about the role of transit and gentrification and displacement,” Allen said of mass transit advocacy. “And I think the reason that [such efforts] picked up is because of this renewed urban growth and the comeback of cities, because that’s all about race and class.”

Transit justice groups nationwide are pushing for transit systems that prioritize the people who use them the most.

Without such a focus on “an affordable housing crisis that is also a transit crisis, we know that low-income folks and particularly black families that have been pushed out “We believe transit is a civil right and also a human right,” of the city for decades now by a lack of affordable housing Wiens said. Photo: NATE SMALLWOOD FOR HUFFPOST

IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 19 For these reasons, mass transit access downtown is Some advocates remain highly skeptical of public transit predictably robust. That changes outside the city and as solutions reliant on private sector companies. soon as you hit the first-ring of municipalities that surround And while there is no shortage of public interest in it, Sandvig explained. privately backed transit innovations, whether hyperloops In similarly fractured or sprawling transit regions, some or Elon Musk’s freeway tunnel, the public remains have looked to ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft and largely uninterested in mass transit as it currently exists. subsidized rideshare travel as a means of bridging service That’s troubling for those who argue the transit solution gaps in vast pockets of urban sprawl. most Americans need is already in place and just needs money to improve or, at a bare minimum, to keep from In places like Duquesne, Green said plenty of folks breaking down. already turn to jitneys and ride-hailing apps for this purpose — at their own expense. “We’ve been starving this as long as possible, which is why we have what we have,” Sandvig said of mass transit Kelleman doesn’t think that option is feasible en masse in systems failing to meet transportation challenges in so Pittsburgh or Allegheny County, though, given the density. many urban areas. “It’s time to talk about what transit should be doing in “We can do anything,” he said. “Just add dollars and stir.” v this century,” she said, “whether it’s scooter connections or paratransit or big buses or trains or inclines — what do we want it to do and how do we make that happen for everybody?”

Milwaukee bus driver goes above and beyond

So, as she drove and picked up passengers throughout the city, Richard sat quietly in the first row. And finally, when it was time for Natalie’s break, the two spent some time talking. Then he let the kind bus driver buy him dinner.

“I don’t know what to say, but to say thank you,” he told her upon returning with bags of food. “I’ll give it back to you.”

“No, you won’t!” she responded.

Later, Barnes connected Richard to the emergency shelter Community Advocates, which is helping him find a Milwaukee bus operator Natalie Barnes is setting the permanent home. It was all caught on the bus’ camera, standard for kindness and compassion. The Local998- and the agency honored Barnes for her good deed. Milwaukee, WI, member, was driving on a cold night when a regular rider, Richard, told her at a layover that “Every time I see the video, I am inspired by her act the home he was living in had been condemned, and he of kindness and compassion,” said Andi Elliot, CEO had been out on the streets for a week. of Community Advocates. “She treated him in such a dignified way to get him to a place he needed to be.” Natalie offered to buy him dinner, but when the proud man refused, she pivoted to offering, instead, a place where ATU couldn’t agree more. We applaud Barnes for going Richard could stay safe and warm for the night. “Well, above and beyond to help this rider in need and setting an I’m on this bus ‘til 2:44,” she said. “You want to stay with example for all with her actions. v me then?”

20 November/December 2018 | IN TRANSIT IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 21 Maintenance members energized by training

In mid-December, more than 50 ATU members from across Tools to build power in the workplace the United States and Canada attended a maintenance Workshops on steward’s duties and internal organizing training at the Tommy Douglas Conference Center. gave members the tools they need to effectively build The training sessions featured lively discussion, diverse power in their workplace and enforce the rights of the workshops, and engaging presentations to better prepare membership. Sessions on apprenticeship programs, maintenance workers to build worker power on shop requests for proposals and warranties, in-house floors and other workplaces. From health and safety to refurbishing, and vehicle procurement provided insight vehicle procurement, the four-day training covered a into how members can insert themselves and the union number of critical topics impacting these members. into the decision-making process to improve working The training sessions and topics allowed for attendees conditions, take control of their workplace, and improve and instructors to share their expertise on issues in maintenance outcomes. transit maintenance. During the health and safety session, members had the opportunity to discuss safety This maintenance training session was the first of three issues in their workplaces and learn the strategies and to take place. All of the skills taught during this training techniques for identifying and eliminating hazards. will prove vital in our Locals’ efforts to engage their In addition, they were given strategies for organizing membership, riders, and like-minded organizations to workers around health and safety issues and building fight for labor and public transit in their communities. v active safety committees.

IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 21 LEGISLATIVE AGENDA

It’s time to get out your Congressional Directory. Infrastructure Package? Lawmakers in the new Congress in 2019 in Washington, There’s been much talk of lawmakers coming together DC, will have 100 newly-elected U.S. House Members, in the spirit of bipartisanship to pass a badly needed a total of 66 Democrats and 44 Republicans, many infrastructure bill. The nation’s roads and transit systems supported by ATU. are crumbling. We have bridges that are about to collapse Yes, there was a Democratic wave in November. Democrats and rail tunnels which predate the First World War. Will won 40 previously-held Republican seats in the U.S. House Trump make a deal with new House Speaker Nancy of Representatives, seizing control of the chamber. Within Pelosi (D-CA) and pass legislation to get new buses on that freshman class are 23 people of color, dozens of women, the road? If so, we’ll be ready to push for inclusion of the and at least 25 people who identify as “Progressives.” Bus Operator and Pedestrian Protection Act to ensure that transit workers play a role in stopping horrific operator So what does this mean for ATU Members? Time will assaults and preventable blind spot crashes. tell, but it’s safe to say that at least the leadership of the We will know early on in the legislative session whether U.S. House will no longer be pushing anti-labor or anti- any of this is possible. If Trump bitterly resists Democrats’ transit policies designed to hurt transit workers. The Senate, efforts to reign in his administration, things could get still controlled by Republicans, will continue to do what ugly fast, and it will be nearly impossible to get anything they’ve been doing, like confirming right-wing judges with done. And, with the 2020 Presidential Election now in no fondness for organized labor and giving millionaires sight, there will be several current Members of Congress huge tax breaks at the expense of working people. throwing their hat in the ring for Trump’s job. It all adds v The White House? Consumed by new scandals on a up to a fascinating 2019. Stay tuned. daily and sometimes hourly basis, President Trump’s administration will likely continue to struggle to put forth any concrete legislative agenda. His Department of Transportation, which has been slowing down billions of dollars in federal transit funding since day one, will get pushed by the new Democrats on the Hill to start getting bus and rail projects on the street.

22 November/December 2018 | IN TRANSIT IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 23 ATU wins ILCA 2018 Labor Media Awards ATU International is proud to announce that the Union won 16 awards in the National/International Union category of the International Labor Communicators Association (ILCA) 2018 Media competition. ILCA says the “winners represent the best work in labor communications and promote the highest standards of labor journalism.”

First Place Awards Third Place Awards Writing – Best Electronic Content Political Action/Organizing Campaign ATU website (www.atu.org) – Best Flyer Lynx Metro – What people get paid Writing – Best Series ATU Workstation Initiative Electronic Media – Best Longform Video The Perils of Transit Privatization Electronic Media – Best Audio/Podcast/Radio Broadcast Visual Communications – Best Design Lunch with Labor - ATU Local 1300-Baltimore, MD Website, App or Electronic Publication ATU website (www.atu.org) Visual Communications –

Best Design – Single-Issue Publication (Print) Fool DC Twice

Honorable Mentions Second Place Awards Political Action/Organizing Campaign – Visual Communications – Best Collateral Best Informational Graphic Save Our System – DC Metro Workstation Initiative – May/June 2017 Electronic Media – Writing – Best Editorial or Column Best Education and Training Video ‘Our survival will be found in our solidarity… or not’ Tips for Riding the Bus ATU International President Larry Hanley Visual Communications – Visual Communications – Best Illustration Best Design – Magazine (Print) Missing Jake logo In Transit – January/February 2017 Visual Communications – Best Front Page/Cover Magazine (Print) In Transit – September/October 2017 General Excellence – Single-Issue Publication “Ripped From The Headlines: Open My Eyes. Shield Me From Harm. A Commonsense Bus Safety Proposal”

IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 23 Public transportation use linked to better public health

ATU has said for years that investing in public transit is percentage-point increase in mass good for communities, reducing pollution and traffic transit ridership is associated with a congestion, creating jobs and healthier lifestyles, 0.473 percentage-point lower obesity invigorating local economies, and more. A new study rate in counties across the United States. further validates those claims, finding that promoting public transit helps reduce obesity. The report, published in the journalTransportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, used publicly-available “Opting for mass transit over driving creates opportunities health, transportation, and census data from 227 counties for exercise that may otherwise not exist,” said the authors from 45 states in 2001 and 2009. To normalize for of the study. “Instead of just stepping out of the house and different factors across regions, the researchers account into their car, a user needs to walk from their home to a bus for differences in economic and lifestyle factors including stop and from their stop to their destination.” leisure-time, exercise, household income, health care coverage, and public transit funding.

“I think our work points to the conclusion that investing Increased public transit ridership leads in public transit can provide more efficient transportation to lower obesity rates options that not only benefit the environment but also v The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign study offer a public health benefit,” said the report’s authors. compared data from two years to find that a single

Toledo Local decries service cuts, praises plan for citizens’ transit task force

In the wake of the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority blue-ribbon commission created to address the true needs (TARTA) board cutting service, including eliminating of the community.” Sunday and holiday service, two county commissioners are calling for a “special citizens’ task force” to study how Rev. D.L. Perryman, representing United Pastors for public transportation operates in the Toledo area. Social Empowerment, said TARTA’s action to cut service “punishes those who are trying to make two already-short Local 697-Toledo, OH, is deeply concerned about ends meet and is an attempt to prop up TARTA on the how the cuts would impact the community they serve. backs of our most vulnerable citizens.” They were joined by transit advocates who called the public involvement process for the TARTA service cuts “flawed,” Allen says despite TARTA’s General Manager denying pointing out that the agency only held two public hearings any plans for layoffs of transit workers, the likely attrition v on the same day. from the service cuts is just “a layoff without a name.”

Despite the service cuts, Local President Carly Allen says the proposed taskforce is “a breath of fresh air to see a

24 November/December 2018 | IN TRANSIT IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 25 Winnipeg Transit suppressing assault reports

Despite the countless other attacks on bus operators, voice heard before a hearing of the council’s committee. Winnipeg Transit is downplaying the frequency of assaults. She was suspended for getting caught on surveillance tape swearing after one incident, even though she was alone on a bus at the time.

“The fact I even had to critically think about whether or not I can report my own assault, based on the treatment I’m going to receive after reporting, is absurd,” said Garand.

Bus operator safety shields to be installed finally The Local’s efforts are paying off. After two years of pilot programs, Winnipeg Transit is recommending the city Local 1505-Winnipeg, MB, president Aleem Chaudhary install safety shields on all 630 city buses. meeting with reporters, alleging that Winnipeg Transit has been suppressing assault reports. “I think it’s a great move, and we appreciate the fact we’ve

Adding injury to insult, the agency is even disciplining operators who report attacks. “The first question they get asked is, ‘What did you say, what did you do wrong,’” said Local 1505-Winnipeg, MB, President Aleem Chaudhary, pointing out managers even dissuade drivers from reporting physical and verbal assaults. “They’re trying to decrease the numbers as to how serious the assaults are and how many assaults take place. They’re trying to minimize.”

Local wages aggressive safety campaign been pushing for this for years and finally they are going The Local has been waging an aggressive campaign to to deliver,” Chaudhary said. The Local hopes all 630 buses improve safety for bus operators and riders. will have the driver safety shields within a year and half v

With the agency projected to have an $8 million transit surplus, the Local urged the City Council’s Finance Committee to use the funds on a long-needed operator- safety measures, including the promised installation of shields.

Former Winnipeg Transit driver Chantale Garand decided to quit over safety and harassment issues, but made her

IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 25 Edmonton bus operator honoured for stopping racist tirade

With a standing ovation from Edmonton City Councillors veteran bus operator Larry Lazar Waters was honoured at City Hall for stopping a racist verbal assault on his bus.

A 19-year old woman with her six year-old son and pregnant friend were on Waters’ bus when a woman boarded and started yelling racial insults.

“She started to antagonize my eight-months-pregnant friend. She was calling her fat — a fat Indian, saying we belong at the shelter because we’re no-good-for-nothing Indians,” said the woman. ETS Passenger Dalen Cardinal with Local 569-Edmonton, AB, bus operator Larry Lazar Waters. One passenger intervened and told the assailant to stop, but she continued on her tirade. So in stepped Waters, a 40-year veteran and a member of Local 569-Edmonton, AB. At the ceremony Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson said he was proud of Waters and simply told him “Well done.”

Waters said he believes anything that jeopardizes a person’s Maybe the worst feeling of safety in public space — or their own private space “I’ve been driving a long time and I’ve heard many things. — should be addressed. It was about as bad as it ever gets. It was maybe the worst,” “There will always be people who are against other groups, said Waters. “I’d asked the offender to stop, and she didn’t. whether it be culture, colour, whatever, but hopefully by So I secured the bus and got up and insisted that she leave. and large, people will be accepting of others and if they see Fortunately, she did.” something like this or something that’s out of line, they The entire incident was caught on video and quickly went will step in. At least I hope so,” said Waters, acknowledging v viral on Facebook. the job his union brothers and sisters do every day.

26 November/December 2018 | IN TRANSIT IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 27 Free public transit is gaining popularity in Europe

What’s the best way to get more people to ride public new initiative hopes to alleviate some of the worst traffic transit? Make it free to use, which was once thought of as congestion in the world and reduce Luxembourg’s radical, but is becoming popular and successful in Europe. carbon footprint.

France has been a leader with more than two dozen cities offering free public transit. Aubagne, made transit free on 11 bus routes serving 100,000 residents in 2009. Over Ridership doubles in Dunkirk the next three years, bus ridership rose 142% and car trips With a population of about 200,000 Dunkirk, France, is decreased 10%. the latest and largest city in Europe to try it. After just one month the Mayor says ridership has increased 50- 85% on certain routes and the city is expanding its bus Luxembourg to be first country to fleet to 140 from 100 vehicles. It works because fares had make public transit free only raised 10% of the system’s annual operating costs, a difference the city has made up by raising the public Luxembourg announced that they will lift all fares on transport tax on companies with more than 11 employees. trains, and buses next summer. The country has more than 400,000 commuters traveling in to work The ATU hopes cities and elected officials in North from neighboring countries and has the highest number America are taking notice. v of cars for its population in the European Union. The

IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 27 Mais, nous voulons vous entendre ‒ vous, nos membres ‒ Rétroaction sur la façon dont nous pouvons mieux vous servir. Alors, si vous avez une minute ou deux, envoyez-nous un Nous recevons des commentaires très passionnés par le court message nous indiquant comment nous pouvons biais de nos publications, notre site Web, nos médias nous améliorer. Vous pouvez envoyer vos suggestions, sociaux et parfois notre courrier, en particulier lorsque nous commentaires et idées à [email protected]. v parlons de politique. Souvent, ces discussions politiques détournent notre attention de l’objectif principal du SUT ‒ la santé et le bien-être de nos membres.

Dans les parutions récentes du magazine In Transit, nous nous sommes concentrés sur les programmes que nous Les sections locales de SUT offrons dans le but de promouvoir les intérêts de nos membres. Nous aimerions connaître votre opinion sur Canada font pression pour ces programmes. une stratégie nationale du Nous avons travaillé sur des révisions et des améliorations pour que ces programmes soient les meilleurs possible. transport en commun sur la Je pense ici à la formation, à la sécurité au travail, aux problèmes de santé des travailleurs du transport en Colline du Parlement commun, aux angles morts sur les autobus, aux pauses- toilettes, aux agressions sur nos membres et plus encore. Depuis qu’il a pris la barre comme président de SUT Tout ce qui a attiré votre attention et qui pourrait nous Canada à la fin du mois de juillet, il est clair que aider à réfléchir à l’avenir de ces programmes conçus pour John Di Nino s’est donné pour mission d’unifier nos nos membres. membres d’un océan à l’autre en tant que Une voix, un Canada, un SUT ! Notre syndicat et nos sections L’année dernière, nous avons organisé une formation locales partout au pays font face à de nombreux défis et avec un groupe diversifié de personnel d’entretien, nous nous préparons en formant nos dirigeants et nos comportant un vaste éventail de titres d’emploi et de membres, en élaborant une stratégie unifiée et en prenant niveaux d’expérience, pour ainsi créer une expérience les dispositions nécessaires. d’apprentissage pratique innovante pour tous (voir à la page 21). Cet hiver, nous organisons trois autres L’un des problèmes les plus graves est sans doute la lutte formations d’entretien distinctes au Centre de conférence contre la privatisation, qui menace les agences de transport Tommy Douglas. Lors de ces formations, nous essayerons en commun et les autres services publics de notre pays. d’en apprendre davantage sur les problèmes actuels Nous avons déjà assisté à ce combat auparavant lorsque et émergents qui ont un impact sur nos membres non nos sections locales de l’Ontario ont mené avec succès conducteurs et sur leurs besoins. une campagne visant à maintenir le transport en commun dans la province.

Comment nous améliorer Tracer la voie pour l’avenir de Gardez à l’esprit que le Syndicat international guide les principaux programmes. Nous ne sommes pas SUT Canada physiquement dans le garage avec les griefs de la En octobre, le conseil d’administration de SUT Canada, section locale et d’autres problèmes qui affectent en collaboration avec l’International, a entamé une nos membres sur une base quotidienne. Par contre, période de transition pour donner à SUT Canada une nous soutenons et appuyons les dirigeants et les membres nouvelle direction qui permettait de mieux servir nos qui le sont. Nous fournissons la recherche et la formation sections locales et nos membres partout au pays. à chaque section locale afin de mieux servir nos membres, y compris la recherche en négociation, la santé, la sécurité Au cours d’une période de deux mois, ils ont achevé un et toute autre assistance au quotidien. examen opérationnel de SUT Canada, mis au point une

28 November/December 2018 | IN TRANSIT IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 29 formation en leadership, élaboré un plan pour aller de utiles, des exercices et des scénarios de jeux de rôle qui l’avant et offert une nouvelle image à SUT Canada afin ont montré des moyens efficaces de garder les discussions de mieux le faire connaître et engager les membres par le des réunions de lobbyistes sur la bonne voie. Le jeu de biais des médias sociaux. rôle a été déterminant pour préparer nos équipes aux réunions réelles. De plus, reconnaissant les besoins de nos sections locales et les campagnes à venir, deux organisateurs nationaux Comme nous l’avons entendu précédemment, la ont été embauchés pour soutenir efficacement toutes connaissance, c’est le pouvoir, et il est essentiel que les sections locales du Canada. Ils sont déjà occupés à nous formions nos membres de façon continue. « Les créer une salle de guerre pour répertorier les sections Journées de lobbying sont l’occasion idéale de donner aux locales du SUT et les associations d’usagers à travers membres une formation à l’action politique, mais ce le pays, et sont prêts à aller de l’avant pour nouer des que nous leur avons vraiment donné, ce sont des outils alliances partout au Canada. à emporter avec lesquels ils peuvent rentrer chez eux et les utiliser pour faire pression dans leurs propres communautés », explique Di Nino.

Formation En prévision de ces Journées de lobbying, SUT Canada La formation des délégués syndicaux est un autre a organisé des réunions pour les dirigeants locaux de domaine qui mérite une attention particulière. Nous partout au Canada avec les ministres les plus influents avons été ravis de recevoir autant de demandes pour et leurs députés. Les dirigeants des sections locales cette importante formation. « Ayant personnellement du SUT étaient armés d’informations pour discuter occupé un poste de délégué pendant 15 ans, j’ai compris des principaux problèmes émergents ayant une incidence l’urgence et la nécessité de dispenser cette formation sur le SUT et ses membres, notamment la sortie de le plus tôt possible pour donner à nos membres la Greyhound dans l’ouest du Canada, les annonces représentation qu’ils attendent et qu’ils méritent à juste du gouvernement de l’Ontario concernant les projets titre », a déclaré Di Nino. En un peu moins de deux mois, de téléversement et de privatisation de la TTC et la SUT Canada, en collaboration avec l’International, a tentative de modification de la loi Metrolinx par le Projet commencé à dispenser une formation qui s’est amorcée de loi omnibus 57. à Vancouver, en Colombie-Britannique, puis s’est dirigée Plus de 30 réunions ont eu lieu et les dirigeants du SUT vers l’est à Hamilton, en Ontario, formant des membres ont été assignés de manière stratégique en fonction de 14 sections locales différentes, ce qui représente plus de leurs sections locales. La stratégie consistait non du tiers de ses sections locales. seulement à faire pression sur les membres du Parlement du gouvernement en place, mais également à faire pression sur les dirigeants de l’opposition, qui pourraient Le SUT se rend sur la Colline du alors devenir des défenseurs et des critiques du SUT pour Parlement pour les Journées de créer un dialogue au Parlement. lobbying Des groupes de 3 à 4 membres du SUT ont été affectés À la fin novembre, plus de 50 membres des sections à chaque réunion prévue pour donner à tous les dirigeants locales du Canada se sont réunis à Ottawa pour les du SUT une expérience de lobbying. À chaque réunion, Journées de lobbying. Afin de ’assurers qu’ils sont prêts l’équipe du SUT a remis au ministre ou au député à maximiser l’impact de ces visites sur la Colline du un document contenant la Stratégie nationale pour le Parlement, les membres ont bénéficié d’une journée transport en commun du SUT, appelant à un financement complète de formation essentielle sur l’action politique opérationnel dédié. En outre, trois lettres préadressées pour les syndicats du secteur public animée par Bill Cole, ont été laissées aux ministres ou aux députés pour être expert en négociation, médiation et arbitrage. M. Cole signées lors de nos réunions. Ces lettres confirmant la est associé principal de recherche au sein du programme Stratégie nationale pour le transport en commun du SUT Travail et vie professionnelle à la Faculté de droit de et son financement opérationnel dédié étaient adressées au Harvard. Cette formation complète a fourni des conseils ministre des Transports, au ministre de l’Infrastructure

IN TRANSIT | www.atu.org 29 et des Collectivités et au ministre de l’Environnement et du Changement climatique. Les dirigeants ont également invité les ministres et les députés à assister à la séance d’accueil du SUT lors de cette soirée.

Dans l’ensemble, les Journées de lobbying ont permis à SUT Canada et à ses membres de se faire entendre sur la Colline du Parlement, mais ce n’est qu’un début alors que nous devons maintenant engager nos membres, nos usagers et nos alliés dans la lutte pour un transport en commun plus étendu, plus efficace et plus sûr à la grandeur de notre grand pays. v

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