Barrickman Wrote:
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> On Tuesday night, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)
> Local 689 and the Washington Metropolitan Area
> Transit Authority (WMATA or Metro) released a
> joint public statement announcing that a deal had
> been struck between the transit union and the US
> capital’s transit system. The deal, both parties
> have claimed, would reverse Metro’s privatizing
> of various functions of the system.
>
> The announcement follows Sunday’s decision by
> ATU Local 1764 to call off the strike of nearly
> 600 Fairfax Connector transit bus operators in
> Northern Virginia against the transit firm
> Transdev, which privately operates the bus system
> in the DC suburbs. The ATU acknowledged that the
> settlement failed to resolve workers concerns over
> “wages, vacation, sick [leave], [or]
> retirement,” i.e., all the most basic issues.
>
> The treachery of the transit unions underscores
> the necessity for workers to take the conduct of
> this struggle out of the hands of the ATU and to
> build rank-and-file committees independent of the
> union and operatives of the Democratic and
> Republican parties of big business.
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