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A Telephone Town Hall meeting was held on October 28 to discuss our Retirement Pension Plan and the Retiree Health Care Trust.  More than 2,000 members participated and many asked important questions of the RHCT Trustees and the attorneys for the Union. If you were unable to join the call you can hear the complete recording of telephone town meeting here.

 

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CTA vs. Unions Next year's CTA budget calls for no fare hikes, but it asks for major concessions from transit unions to close a massive budget shortfall. Eddie Arruza talks with CTA president Forrest Claypool and the head of the transit agency's biggest union. Related Links:  More on CTA More on ATU Local 308 More on Forrest Claypool More on Robert Kelly Chicago Sun-Times editorial on CTA and union compromises

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Chicago Federation of Labor scolds Forrest Claypool.  See attachment.
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The Following
By-Laws Proposal
Were Approved by the International on
October 24, 2011
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From the ATU Dispatch - Update

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

NEWS ALERT

$2 Billion Operating Assistance Bill Introduced

WASHINGTON, DC: Senator Christopher Dodd, D-CT, chair of the Senate Banking Committee, introduced the Public Transportation Preservation Act of 2010 * this afternoon.  ATU Legislative Director Jeff Rosenberg is to be commended for helping craft the language in the bill which would provide $2 billion in emergency operating assistance for public transit in the United States.

In a statement released this afternoon, International President Warren S. George urged the public to support the legislation:

Affordable, convenient public transit keeps cars off the road, reduces traffic and congestion and improves the air quality in our communities. Since January 2009, six out of ten public transit systems in the U.S. have cut service, raised fares, or both; thousands of transit workers have been laid off; and millions of commuters have less access to public transportation.  Without emergency action, the problem will get worse -- seven out of ten transit systems are facing deficits in the coming year.

Passage of the legislation is far from assured.  The ATU Legislative Department is urging ATU members to call their senators immediately.

You can find your senators' telephone number online at:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Links: Final draft of the bill

          Senate Media Release on the Bill

*This new bill is separate from the Sherrod Brown bill in the Senate and the Carnahan bill in the House which the ATU and TWU have been promoting as part of the Save Our Ride coalition.  Those bills would allow all transit systems to use a portion of their federal dollars for operating expenses such as wages, rather than capital expenditures such as buses and transit stations.

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The CTA continues to breach its contract while hiring workers, a local union chief says.

CTA, union still at odds over rehiring workers
by Nicholas Padiak
May 20, 2010

Remember all those CTA layoffs in February?  Well, there's still a fight going on.

The CTA has been hiring back some laid-off workers, but a local union leader says the transit agency has not done enough and he is continuing to pursue the grievance he filed in mid-April.

The CTA announced in April that it would start hiring back laid-off union workers to fill vacancies created by attrition such as retirements.  Robert Kelly, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308, said the CTA should have been doing that all along and was breaching its contract by hiring outside of the pool of laid-off union workers. 

A CTA representative said the transit agency acted in accordance with the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act while hiring workers. However, the agency has not said whether it hired non-union workers as Kelly has charged. CTA officials had 30 days to respond after receiving the grievance, but representatives did not respond to requests for comment as of Thursday afternoon.    

Kelly said on Wednesday Local 308 has had only eight workers hired back while the CTA continues to bring in new employees who are not part of a transit union. Kelly said approximately 115 members of his union were laid off in February. 

A CTA representative said the agency has been working with the unions by reaching out to job candidates, processing paperwork and helping to secure job assignments. 

The grievance should be headed to arbitration within the next 60 days, Kelly said. 

Should the CTA lose the arbitration hearing, Kelly said, it would have to bring back more of the people who were laid off.  If the CTA wins, it will mean the transit agency did not breach its contract. 

"We do not believe for one bit that they're right," Kelly said. 

The CTA made service cuts and layoffs in February because of budget constraints.  Rehiring workers would not affect services since the number of jobs after the cuts will remain the same. 

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