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Video: Which Side Are You On?
Below is a compilation of video and photos (courtesy John Clancy) from the ATU mobilization in Cleveland, Ohio. The song played along in the background is, “Which Side Are You On?,” written by Florence Reece. Reece was the wife of Sam Reece, a union organizer for the United Mine Workers in Harlan County, Kentucky. In…
Read MoreVideo: Pres. Hanley on ‘Rocking the Transit World’
Watch video here Text from the video: The stakes in the U.S. election are higher than ever before. What’s at stake? The future of our jobs, our children, the labor movement, mass transit and all working families. That’s why all transit workers need to help us get out the vote. ATU has been busy gearing…
Read MoreMBTA: Have you seen this spitter?
Boston Herald | Renee Nadeau Algarin | April 23, 2012 The MBTA has released surveillance video of two teens who allegedly spit at and threatened a bus driver last week in hopes of bringing them to justice. The incident took place around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday after a suspect believed to be in his late teens…
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Video Shows Disgruntled Rider Targeting MBTA Worker
Rider Initiated An Earlier Confrontation With Same Customer Service T Worker Boston, MA – Video released by the Boston Carmen’s Union Local 589 shows a disgruntled commuter rail passenger targeting a MBTA worker prior to a confrontation at the Back Bay Train station. The passenger told the MBTA and media outlets that he took out…
Read MoreBrother Bailey Saves Life
A quick-thinking 36-year-veteran Green Line instructor, John Bailey, plucked a badly injured passenger from a burning taxi just moments before the mangled cab burst into a fireball after flying airborne into a tree along the Mystic Valley Parkway in Arlington yesterday. Here’s brother Bailey’s account from an interview with NECN:
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T bus drivers find patience tested
By Eric Moskowitz Globe Staff / February 3, 2011 Driving the MBTA’s Route 11 bus yesterday between City Point and Downtown Crossing, Carolyn Gillis had to slow or stop for the following amid the snow-narrowed streets of South Boston: a home heating-oil truck parked the wrong way, obstructing the road; a Honda CR-V camped in…
Read MoreNew documentary shows how T workers toil while others sleep
Boston Globe | Jeremy C. Fox | February 13, 2012 Late each night, more than 100 MBTA workers prowl the tracks of the transit system to find damage and make repairs, ending their
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