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Daily Kos: Occupy Transit! Transit Workers & the Occupy Movement Team Up: "Calling mass transit “a genuine civil rights issue,” the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), which represents transit workers across the nation, joined with the Occupy Movement, community organizations and transit riders to demand a revitalization of our transit systems. Citing such problems as “older vehicles, deferred maintenance and longer wait times for overcrowded buses and trains,” the ATU was also critical of service cuts and higher fares which have hit working class riders the hardest.
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This afternoon, the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587, which represents King County Metro workers, agreed to a three-year contract that would waive the COLA (cost-of-living adjustment) increase for the first of the three years.  T... Read Post

Occupy Wall Street protesters rally with Verizon workers (Pete Sikora/CWA) The Communications Workers of America and Amalgamated Transit Union have added their support to Occupy Wall Street. ATU locals in the New York area as well a... Read Post

Leaders of the Amalgamated Transit Union that represents about 700 CDTA workers held a meeting on Monday night to inform its members that the union's president admitted to stealing $3,800 from the workers' pension fund. Read Post