Dear Brothers and Sisters, We are looking for bus operators to volunteer for the Memorial Service for fallen MIT officer Sean Collier. The memorial service is this Wednesday at noon on MIT’s athletic fields. Bus operators are needed to shuttle police officers and others from the MIT community from the North Jetty and Shriner’s Auditorium…
Boston Herald | April 20, 2013 | By Jordan Graham When Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man suspected of setting off the Boston Marathon bombs, was finally captured last night after an intense day-long manhunt, it was MBTA Transit Police officers who slapped the cuffs on the man who is accused of nearly killing one of their…
CBS News | April 20, 2013 CAMBRIDGE (CBS) – Family members of the Transit police officer who was shot and critically wounded early Friday morning while chasing the two men wanted for the Boston Marathon bombings are thanking people for their prayers. Officer Richard Donohue, Jr., 33, remained at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge on…
Our deepest sympathies to the family of the fallen MIT officer, enormous gratitude to the law-enforcement officials and first responders, and prayers for MBTA Officer Richard Donohue at Mount Auburn Hospital and for a peaceful end to this madness.
Yesterday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon was a vicious, senseless attack on innocent people that is rightly condemned by all Americans. The Amalgamated Transit Union joins President Obama in his determination to see the full weight of American justice brought to bear upon the perpetrators of this cowardly act. Our hearts and prayers go out…
The campaigns of Stephen Lynch for U.S. Senate and Nick Collins for Mass. State Senate have suspended all campaign-related activities for an indefinite amount of time out of respect for the victims, and family members of Monday’s tragedy. In the meantime, both candidates have asked that all energy be focused on helping the victims and their families,…
On behalf of the Executive Board and all the members of the Boston Carmen’s Union, ATU Local 589, our collective hearts go out to the victims of yesterday’s senseless tragedy. We would also like to express our gratitude to all of Boston’s first responders – Boston Police, Boston Fire Department, and Boston EMS – for their heroic and…
Boston Herald | Thursday, April 11, 2013 | By Richard Weir The T’s planned pilot program to install partitions in bus cabs to protect drivers from being assaulted by raging riders is getting mixed review from one veteran bus driver who told the Herald today he feels the glass cages could help some operators feel…
Boston Herald | April 10, 2013 | By Gary J. Remal and Richard Weir Assaults on MBTA employees are up dramatically this year, T cops say, after arresting a rider they say spat on and then slugged a bus driver in Malden’s Oak Grove Station in the kind of fare dispute that the T police…
Boston Herald | Colneth Smiley Jr. | Tuesday, April 9, 2013 A Wakefield teen was arrested this morning after MBTA Transit Police say he spat on and attacked an MBTA bus driver who refused to let the wannabe passenger ride for free at Oak Grove Station in Malden. MBTA Transit Police were called to the…
BOSTON —A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus driver was allegedly injured Saturday night by a passenger. MBTA transit police said the incident happened at about 9:45 p.m. on a Silver Line bus in the South End between Washington and West Newton streets. The female driver was taken to Boston Medical Center for treatment after officials…
MBTA driver is recovering after a fight over a fare onboard an MBTA bus. It’s the latest in a series of attacks on T workers. MBTA officials said the man boarded at Dudley Station and didn’t want to pay his fare. They say that man punched the driver in the nose when the driver asked…
On Tuesday, April 2nd, the Greater Boston Central Labor Council voted by a two-thirds super-majority to recommend the endorsement of Nick Collins for State Senator in the special election on April 30th. Collins, a current State Representative, is running for the open 1st Suffolk District seat formerly held by Jack Hart. After hearing presentations from all three…
On March 23, 2013 at approximately 9:00 pm Transit Police officers from Area 3 responded to Ashmont MBTA station for a report of a trolley operator being assaulted. Upon arrival officers interviewed the victim/T employee who stated the following: while at Ashmont T station she was angrily approached by a male, later identified as James…
Universal Hub | By adamg | 3/27/13 Four teens got into an argument with a Green Line operator around 4:45 p.m. at the BU West Station. The MBTA reports one of them threw a soda can at the driver. He missed, but T police nabbed him and now he faces a court appearance for assault with…