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CTA workers now must deal with intense surveillance while they work inside the Customer Assistance kiosks. Union rep
@EricBasir308
urges his coworkers to demand an end to the high tech harassment
@fixthecta_CDSA
@ctaaction
@ATUComm
@labornotes
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Dear Riders: We have served the people of Chicago with honor. So we deserve respect from our employer—just like the you deserve to have safe and reliable transportation. Please support CTA workers!
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It was reported to us that CTA employees haven’t had a working bathroom at the Oak Park Blue Line station in 10 years. This means they must travel to other stations. This is a violation of our Collective Bargaining Agreement and is disrespectful.
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Did you know that the ONLY way to become a train operator at the CTA is to be hired as a Part Time employee with no dental or life insurance, you must buy your own uniform, no paid vacation, no holiday pay and no pension? There is no time limit for being PT either.
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This is the dirty, smelly secret behind the CTA’s downfall. Four tiers of wages. Perpetual Part Time jobs. Gross mismanagement.
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Did you know that the CTA management used to assign power washing for stations at least every other week? Now it happens once a year at best and they make a public relations event out of it. CTA workers and riders deserve better.
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Before you blame that CTA train or bus operator for being late with your ride, think about this:
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Did you know that CTA workers were on the verge of organizing strikes almost ten times since March 2020? Each and every time, their union presidents and officers vigorously worked to crush such efforts. Many members were punished—and made afraid—thanks to the union officials.
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Imagine what it is like for the CTA workers who clean trains on the station platform at 95th terminal for 8-hour shifts.
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CTA workers are protesting TODAY at Forest Park Terminal from 3-4 pm. Riders are invited. Bring signs expressing your support of the people who move the city!
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Dear CTA Riders: Please don’t blame the CTA workers for the poor service. Blame the mismanagement for stealing wages from us, violating our Contract, harassing us and punishing us for the administrative and occupational hazards they refuse to remove. They made this mess. Not us.
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Dear visitors and tourists: Any delays or offensive odors are not the fault of the employees. It is the fault of the CTA mismanagement's refusal to treat us with respect and abide by our Collective Bargaining Agreement.
The
@CTA
Blue Line is an easy and economical way to get between O’Hare and downtown Chicago. The platform is located inside the airport and can be easily found by following the “Trains to the City” signage.
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It is a myth that CTA workers are overpaid. They are overworked. Chronic illness, injuries, endless overtime, inadequate tools, barbaric working conditions, an underfunded pension, sky-high pay deductions, nonsensical work rules and expensive insurance fuel a high turnover rate.
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The CTA mismanagers have cut runs and jobs for decades.
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The CTA mismanagers punish workers who get sick or injured with writeups and sometimes termination.
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It's Price Gouging, not Inflation. Good distinction.
NEW: What explains the oil industry's historically massive profits?
A price gouging scheme that oil companies freely acknowledge.
@JessicaLBurbank
breaks it down.
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The CTA mismanagers have increased scrutiny of operators with cameras and fired many for trifling rules violations such drinking a bottle of water.
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The CTA will be initiating an "emergency pick" (employee schedule change) for the Blue Line train operators "due to construction." What they will not tell anyone is that this is actually due to decades of deferred maintenance, cost-cutting and abuse of employees.
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The CTA train operators are constantly rushed and rarely have a moment to physically and mentally recover. In each trip is a potential incident where they will lose their job or be injured. One-Person Train Operation is destroying us. We must fight for
#TwoPersonCrews
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ATU Local 241 President, Keith Hill, proudly sided with the CTA to punish a transgender bus operator in 2020. But this is not unusual for him. He has a countless amount of union members whose jobs and lives he helps the CTA punish unjustly.
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And CTA and Pace Bus workers have almost no protection while they fill our stations and vehicles.
Mayor Lightfoot spoke of Lollapalooza being the largest music festival in the world as if it was something to be proud of. And under normal circumstances, it would be.
But not with a new surge in a global pandemic.
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We are at a forum about public transit in crisis. Our organizers are making our plight known as CTA coworkers.
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Our totally undemocratic, pro-CTA union leadership has endorsed Mayor Lightfoot—a cruel and arrogant leader of the CTA who abandoned us during the Pandemic. The members were never consulted or polled. This is treason.
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We don’t have Conductors anymore. We have ONE single person that is overworked, overwhelmed and just as tired as the riders of the delays.
One rider had to say: "Delayed train during rush hour, now standstill bc the conductor refuses to tell people to move out of the door again. We’re on minute 15 of standing on an already delayed train.. it’s a madhouse. Absolutely awful. "
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The crime no one talks about is the abject poverty many CTA workers face. We need
#FullTimeJobsForAll
in the 2024 Contract.
CTA chief says crime is hurting ridership rebound
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Recently, a single parent CTA worker told a union steward that her uniform allowance was confiscated by the CTA and will need to go in their own pocket to buy new uniforms when she is promoted to Train Operator. This is despicable. We need
#FullTimeJobsForAll
at the CTA.
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Here is our official response to
@ChicagosMayor
@kambucknerchi
regarding the Transition Team's official report.
@ctaaction
@WGNNews
@chicagotribune
@Suntimes
@BlockClubCHI
@streetsblogchi
@WBEZ
@WBEZreset
@WVON1690
@labornotes
@inthesetimesmag
@fightbacknews
@ATUComm
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That's right. We made it work—and we did it with no show of gratitude from our employer. When we get sick or injured while on duty, we will still be punished and harassed.
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Dear CTA riders: When you meet a CTA employee that may seem uncaring, asleep or angry, please understand that we have no sick days. We are punished when we call off sick or get injured. Most of us work while sick or injured. Our part time coworkers don’t even have paid vacation.
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@jus10chi
@CTULocal1
Over a dozen CTA/Pace Bus workers have been martyred and hundreds sickened with Covid-19. Many of our coworkers have no family medical or dental. None of us have sick days. Many had to give up paid vacation days to care for children who could not attend school.
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No matter who replaces Dorval Carter at the CTA, on-time performance will continue to languish if working conditions for the employees remain fundamentally the same.
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Did you know that CTA employees have no sick/personal days? Moreover, did you know that they are punished for each time they call off work? Even though they are unpaid, if they do it six times in one year, they will be fired.
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Spokesman Brian Steele is incorrect. The CTA president is in violation of the rules regarding fare evasion. He needs to be written up and punished. Accelerated discipline is appropriate because of his elevated status and gross misconduct.
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With benefit-poor, 40-hour part time jobs as the only path of entry for new train operators, staffing will continue to be a major problem at the CTA. This is why we are calling workers and riders to demand
#FullTimeJobsForAll
CTA workers in the 2024 Contract on 7/14.
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@Mikeparnbetter
Your myth about us making more money than workers with degrees hints of prejudice and ignorance. We have coworkers with degrees and are dependent on WIC, SNAP and medicaid to make ends meet. Walk a mile in our shoes before belittling CTA worker’s struggles.
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Dangerous defects with the rails, cross-ties and roadbed from years of cuts to maintenance to save money. This is due to the overfunding of wars and the prison industrial complex and underfunding of human beings and the places where we live and work.
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Many CTA workers struggle with homelessness. This reality is at the heart of the horrendous service and mismanagement of the country’s second largest public transit agency. We need
#FullTimeJobsForAll
in the 2024 Contract.
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@moonchi004
@ctaaction
It is not a charity for the upper management. The CTA president gets an $350,000 salary while PT workers get 40 hour schedules and unpaid vacations.
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It will never happen here as long as we continue the creation of Poverty Time jobs, One Person Train Operation and deferred maintenance at the CTA.
Ending our trip this morning exploring Madrid on their Metro. Took it around the City Center and to the airport. Very clean, reliable and affordable.
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The preliminary NTSB report proves that the accident was not the fault of the workers. They performed their duty with excellence. It was a hazard that CTA mismanagement should have removed long ago.
@fixthecta_CDSA
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Yes, it a conflict of interest, a job killer, a pension killer and bona fide union busting operation. It is known as "microtransit." The CTA and compromised union officials even put it in our last Contract as Article 13.30. Many members did not understand what they voted for.
Fun story, the CTA's board of directors include an executive of a self-driving car service and an executive at Amazon who's a former Deloitte employee
Here's a thought: maybe the board shouldn't have MASSIVE conflicts of interest and people who work for anti-union orgs.
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Over half of Part Time workers at the CTA are women. Many live in poverty. No dental. No paid time off. No pension. Celebrate
#NationalWomenDay
by organizing to fight for
#FullTimeJobsForAll
at the CTA in the 2024 Contract.
#NoMoreConcessions
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@gregabb416
What a ridiculous and irrelevant response. This is an issue about a union that works in harmony with the employer.
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Policing is a short-term solution that distracts us from the root cause of the CTA’s chronic maladies.
#FullTimeJobsForAll
CTA workers and
#TwoPersonCrews
addresses reliability, staffing and public safety.
During tonight's mayoral debate, when asked about improving the CTA Brandon John's response focused on improving reliability and staffing, while Paul Vallas said "Public safety is the overriding issue."
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They say we made it fine without Conductors on our CTA trains. Is that true?
Tune in to the Chicago-Area Transit Workers Radio show Friday at 8:30 AM and let’s talk about the Truth!
Listen here
Call in with your comments when we go live (515) 605-9885
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CTA leadership should never be appointed. A popularly-elected Board of Directors with term limits should have control.
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They are harassed for using FMLA rights.
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While our tax dollars fund cluster bomb exports to annihilate human beings in other countries and keep the Prison Industrial Complex alive with 180 Billion dollars a year budgets, riders must struggle for 15 more years just to find a rail station they can use. Disgraceful.
We're committed to making CTA 100% accessible!
In 1990 about 6% of our rail stations complied with accessibility standards. Today, 103 of 145 rail stations do. With our All Stations Accessibility Program we plan to achieve 100% accessibility by 2038.
More:
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The only persons that should be on the CTA Board of Directors are popularly elected CTA workers and riders from different communities.
Business consultant and manager Neema Jha’s temp term had already expired earlier this year and was temporarily reappointed by
@JBPritzker
again on Nov 9th in the middle of worsening service. There are so few people on the board currently that have ANYTHING to do with transit.
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@PaulVallas
You will NEVER have enough police on buses and trains to increase ridership. CTA manpower was being cut long before the Pandemic. You had better triple the investment in
#FullTimeJobsForAll
and
#TwoPersonCrews
at the CTA if you want good service.
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We the CTA union workers need to be included in the “transition” team for
@Brandon4Chicago
. Not just the management. Not just the union elected leaders. The rank-and-file, who include those in Part-Time jobs. We make the city move.
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Expanded zones will also have a positive effect for CTA/Pace/Metra workers.
Guest Streetsblog contributor Daniel Cruz argues that CTA ridership data suggests transit-oriented development zones around transit should be much larger than the current half-mile maximum.
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It will worsen as the weather gets cooler and infections from viruses spread among the CTA workers on the filthy trains and buses. We are encouraged to work while sick because we are punished with write-ups and no sick pay.
One rider had to say: "3 ghost trains in a row and not a single announcement or anything! Guess the blue line just isn't running tonight. thanks CTA!"
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It is easy to blame CTA workers for the terrible on-time performance. But we actually have the solutions—the best solutions. Replacing or punishing us only exacerbates the problem—which is rooted in denigrating working conditions and collective punishment by CTA mismanagement.
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Read the latest
@Chicago_Reader
article that mentions our work and the brave coworkers who stand up and speak out about the cruel and inhumane treatment that CTA workers suffer daily.
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Four such brave coworkers initiated what would have been a massive wildcat strike for life as Covid-19 ripped through Chicago, on April 8, 2020. They are famously known as
#TheMidwayFour
.
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Did you know that CTA Train Operators are required to extinguish fires on the railroad tracks? In addition to this, they must communicate with passengers, a dispatcher and retrieve additional extinguishers from other cars if needed. We need
#TwoPersonCrews
in the 2024 Contract!
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This should be interesting. However, if they did not include the struggles of CTA workers and our working conditions in their investigations, that would be a great travesty. So many riders and politicians do not understand that without us, the trains and buses do not move.
Join us for a free screening of 'Derailed', a DePaul student led documentary digging into what drove the CTA to its current state.
Following the premier will be a Q&A with the films participants, including a few Commuters Take Action organizers.
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This is the consequence of thirty years of eroded working conditions, beginning with elimination of
#TwoPersonCrews
, supercharged by Part Time jobs and exacerbated through mismanagement during the Pandemic.
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Did you know that the CTA Rail Janitors spend their own money for sufficient work clothes? They encounter more daily chemical and biohazards than other front line workers—and assist riders—but receive one of the smallest clothing allowances.
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We applaud
@ctaaction
for this article, but we implore them to make even greater demands: A popularly ELECTED CTA board comprised ONLY of dedicated riders AND CTA union workers will be most effective. This may guard it from privatization and put a leash on gross mismanagement.
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Some CTA riders understandably attribute the ghost buses and trains to operators who “don’t show up for work.” How can one “show up for work” when one is sick, injured or mentally ravaged from forced overtime, unjust punishment and horrific working conditions?
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Bicyclists are major stakeholders in the future of public transportation in our city. They rely on the bike racks of buses and space in trains to cover more distance for errands and commutes. Their safety—and right to bike lanes—on the streets is more important now than ever.
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Our demands for the Amalgamated Transit Union officers and the CTA management regarding the 2024 Contract are simple, comprehensive and good for all CTA workers and riders.
Learn more about our unique, worker-created Contract here:
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@rohlson_
@_evita4
@cta
@ctaaction
@Brandon4Chicago
@PaulVallas
Unfortunately, no one can drive the trains because the CTA has neglected the ever-diminishing Instructor pool for Transportation and Maintenance. Moreover, the only way to be a train operator is through part time employment with minimal benefits for 2-4 years.
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We must resist any fare hikes at the CTA.
Today the MTA fare went up to $2.90.
This is the end result of several months ago, during state budget negotiations, when the Governor aggressively fought against raising new taxes on the rich.
You will now pay more to live in NY so that billionaires don't have to.
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We need riders to help us fight for
#FullTimeJobsForAll
CTA workers and
#TwoPersonCrews
in the 2024 Contract. These things will make us truly appreciated and improve service over the long term.
Happy Transit Employee Appreciation Day to the 9,939 people who move our city 🚌
Thank you for your hard work! You deserve better from your employer
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We are treated worse now. During the Pandemic we at least were not punished when getting sick.
Has the CTA been “Meeting the Moment”? The agency says yes, but
@activetrans
&
@ctaaction
have critiques. The latter says they want a CTA that provides "reliable service, treats its workers well and is transparent and honest. That is not the CTA of today."
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The CTA is barely keeping up with hiring enough workers—especially train and bus operators. Why? Because the working conditions. From the very beginning new operators must buy their own uniform—costing up too $1,000 for a week’s worth of winter and summer clothing.
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As long as CTA workers cannot have sick days, are punished for getting sick/injured and must risk termination for not complying with byzantine FMLA procedures, these issues will only worsen.
@ctaaction
I know it’s not peak commute time but there have been 2 EB 74 Fullerton ghost buses. Allegedly the next is in 2 mins but I don’t see it in the distance.
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The CTA and their union president friends, Keith Hill and Eric Dixon fear any “unofficial” protest by CTA workers. The 7/14 Hour of Power protest is no exception. Keeping us silent through fear and free pizza, turkey or popcorn is standard operating procedure.
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It is because the “CTA rail operator classes” are in 40-hour Part-Time positions and the jobs is extremely unpopular and difficult due to that fact that one person is doing the job of two people.
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Every day a CTA operator, janitor, servicer, customer assistant or supervisor is threatened with murder, rape and/or assaulted. Today is an example:
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He is lying. The problems are vast, deeply rooted in workforce cuts, deferred maintenance and a rigid “safety” code of blame-the-worker and hazard coverups.
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CTA rail cars are filled with sick and homeless human beings. The trains are moving shelters for the despised and rejected of our society. Most are Black men. Billions of dollars for wars and prisons. Billions of excuses to relieve people that suffer in poverty.
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Another reason why CTA service is poor: Our maintenance coworkers often do not have working or appropriate tools to repair trains and buses. When they exercise protected speech, they are threatened by mismanagers.
@srfreish
@ctaaction
@streetsblogchi
@ChicagosMayor
@ATUComm
My manager threatened to punish us because someone kept taping this flier in the locker room. He was so angry like a toddler who couldn’t have more cake. I never imagined working at a place where managers boldly violate labor laws. At least the swear words were bleeped! LOL
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Was there any attempt to include CTA workers—or their input—on the panel? It seems that many has something to say about the CTA, but very few acknowledge who really keeps it running.
I don't think I know a single person in Chicago who's not pissed about the CTA. Why don't you gather your fanny pack of grievances and come on through for a lively discussion about them with
@kambucknerchi
and
@Lyndab08
on June 6
#FirstTueadays
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The most underreported crimes at the CTA are the endless violations against the employees by miserable managers. This includes wage theft, deadly hazards, totally preventable injuries, threats of punishment and intimidation for speaking up. This is hidden from public view.
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Actually, we purport that President Carter—like all the presidents, mayors and boards before him—are doing EXACTLY what they are supposed to do: Sabotage the CTA workers, their unions, the riders and soften it up for the vultures of privatization.
Scoop: New data reveals top CTA executives rarely swiped onto public transit in all of 2021 and 2022.
A trio of city leaders are renewing calls for President Dorval Carter to resign: "Do your damn job or give it up."
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@ctaaction
@Brandon4Chicago
@_evita4
Not only does the CTA violate the ATU Local 241/308 Contract regarding the low-wage SCP, but they toss the hard-working, vulnerable ex-felons who clean buses/trains to the streets during a staff shortage.
While the CTA is whining about workforce shortages, look at this lovey termination notice they sent to one of my coworkers in their Second Chance Program. This is to a man who served loyally with no writeups and never complained. He also applied for FT and got no response.
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The barbaric, pro-CTA business unionist regime in Chicago is responsible for illnesses, deaths and job losses—all of which could have been prevented had the voice of members not been silenced. The punishment and tyranny continues through today.
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This man is clueless to why the CTA does not keep or recruit employees. Crime is a factor. But gross mismanagement and collaboration with elected union leadership to save money on our backs through inferior working conditions and part-time jobs are the main factors.
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“Security” for front line CTA workers includes more than preventing the daily assaults we suffer from riders who have nothing to lose. It also means protection from FMLA harassment, wage theft, lack of real bathrooms, 40-hour PT jobs and productivity speedup.
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We CTA workers are tired of being ghosted by our elected union leaders and our employer. Decade after decade, we lose more FT jobs, are given more work, more stress, more scrutiny, given less tools and the riders see it in poor service.
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Blame the CTA mismanagement. Horrific working conditions for train/bus operators and other employees. 40-Hour "Part Time" jobs. Workplace injuries from hazards that are not removed. Lay-offs. Unjust firings. It will only worsen until workers are treated better.
It's been three years since the start of the pandemic, and the perpetual infrequency of CTA still baffles me beyond belief...
How is there a 20+min wait for a bus, and 14mins for a Blue Line train, midafternoon on a weekday... ???
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We will never accept that concessions are appropriate and that
#FullTimeJobsForAll
,
#TwoPersonCrews
and
#BrickAndMortarBathrooms
are not possible at the CTA!
Attend the 7/14 Hour of Power Protest and demand these things and more!
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Chicago Transit Justice Coalition organizers Brother Aundra and Brother Robert spoke up for CTA rail and bus workers at the Commuters Take Action protest this week.
See video here:
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We invite riders like you to join us in protesting the horrible working conditions for train operators at Forest Park terminal from 3-4pm today. As long as employees are exploited, more riders will be late for work.
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CTA workers are suffering—and it has a direct relation to the poor service experienced by riders. These kinds of canaries in the coal mine are often ignored, downplayed or snuffed out by employers and business unionists. But they are unstoppable.
CTA mismanagement fakes out riders, continues stealing wages from CTA workers, harassing us, playing with our lives and spitting on our Contract. We can't take this shxt anymore!
@ATUComm
@JusticeTransit
@ctaaction
@BlockClubCHI
@kambucknerchi
@chicagosmayor
@WGNNews
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“...The power of the union lies in the participation of its members, and it requires democracy to make members want to be involved...”
Democracy is Power by
@labornotes
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We are punished when we get hurt, when we get sick and when we speak up about working conditions.
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A massive infusion of capital in the United States' transportation system—and total nationalization—is most likely the best solution for the CTA and its workers. Not privatization. Not endorsements by politicians. Not concessionary bargaining with union officials.
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This recent poll by a Local 308 union steward clearly shows that Mayor Lightfoot is one of the least popular among ATU members.
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Local 241 President Keith Hill called our organizers “gay” and “fags” while we were at
@Brandon4Chicago
‘s Saturday afternoon party at
@CTULocal1
union hall. He allegedly “represents” CTA workers. Let him and our International President know what you think of those words
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What many riders do not know is that the CTA punished and fired skilled and experienced train operators as part of its redesigned recertification program. Ambiguous multiple choice questions and computer errors ruined many lives.
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Starting today, CTA bus and rail workers at one of the largest, most recently rebuilt terminals will need to use porta potties for an undefined period of time. It is obvious the CTA built a facility with very little foresight regarding quality.
We will not tolerate the disrespect any longer. We deserve
#BrickAndMortarBathrooms
and for our employer to build terminals that will last more than a few years!
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@tracyswartz
They take it as seriously as they do the Collective Bargaining Agreement with employees. It's always late. It serves the interest of politicians and is being destroyed in preparation for privatization. They have no respect for rider or the workers.
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Protest at Blue Line Forest Park Terminal on Friday 3-4pm!
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At the root of almost every delay that CTA riders experience is gross mismanagement and concessionary bargaining with ATU Local 308/241. Most of those delays—especially on trains—would be resolved with
#FullTimeJobsForAll
and
#TwoPersonCrews
in the 2024 Contract.
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