Archive for July 2014

Legislative Update: FY 15 Budget

Dear Brothers & Sisters, This past Friday, Governor Patrick signed a $36.5 billion budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2015. We wanted to update you on a few things that were included in the passed budget: Driver Assaults: Although everyone is entitled to a safe workplace, this is often not the case for our members. To help ensure…

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Why Collective Bargaining Is a Fundamental Human Right

Huffington Post | Robert Creamer | 07/09/2014 The ability for ordinary working people to organize and collectively bargain over their wages and working conditions is a fundamental human right. It is a right just as critical to a democratic society as the right to free speech and the right to vote. Over the last 30 years…

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Identification wanted for Assault on T employee

Do you Recognize this person? On Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at approximately 5:30 PM, the subject depicted within spit on the bus operator of a Route #110 MBTA Bus near the intersection of Clinton Street and Chelsea Street in the City of Everett. The subject is described as follows: White or Hispanic male, black hair,…

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Local 589 Introduces New Legislative Firm

At the July membership meeting Local 589 introduced the Union’s new legislative representatives, Mike Morris and Mike Bergan of Beacon Strategies Group (BSG). BSG is based in Boston and it’s co-founder Mike Morris’s brother is a Local 589 member and his father is a Boston Carmen’s Union Pensioner. Both Morris and Bergan have extensive experience…

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Public Transit Workers Gain Assault Protections in Mass. Budget

Boston Carmen’s Union ATU Local 589 Hails Passage of Language that Allows Police to Arrest Persons Suspected of Assaulting an MBTA Worker Facing an increasing number of assaults on transit workers, including incidents from spitting to punching, the Boston Carmen’s Union ATU Local 589 hailed the passage of language in the state budget that will…

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ATU Acquires National Labor College Campus

Today marks a rebirth and reinvigorated commitment to education and progressive training for organized labor as the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) expands its long-standing union education and activism program to the newly acquired campus of the former National Labor College. The National Labor College, founded in 1970 by AFL-CIO President George Meany, has been the…

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Local 589 COPE Golf Tournament A Success

The annual Boston Carmen’s Union ATU Local 589 Committee on Political Education (COPE) Golf Tournament featured a beautiful summer day, a large crowd, good food, and fun for all involved reports Vice President Peggy Lapaglia. Local 589 members, members from other unions on the T, and friends filled all the foursomes at what has become…

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