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Metro-area Transit Workers
Posted by:
Barrickman
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Date: November 21, 2019 09:49AM
Workers employed by a private contractor for Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) are increasingly eager to expand their fight against the attack on their living standards and the privatization of public services in the US capital.
Since October 24, 130 bus operators, mechanics and other service technicians at the recently-privatized Cinder Bed Road facility in Northern Virginia have been on strike against the French-owned conglomerate Transdev, which had revenues of $7.3 billion in 2018. Last week bus drivers at Northern Virginia’s Fairfax Connector, a local transit service also contracted to Transdev, voted to strike “if an agreement is not reached” by November 30, when the contract expires for over 600 drivers.
Workers must reject the conspiracy between the ATU and the Democratic and Republican parties, which are all seeking to starve public infrastructure and impoverish workers in order to fund vast resources to the wealthy municipal bond holders.
Such committees will fight to unite with public metro employees, visiting WMATA garages and appealing to spread the strike. They must appeal to workers, including 40,000 New York City public transit workers at the Metropolitan Transit Authority, who are fighting the expansion of part-time and temporary labor and other draconian demands, even as the Transport Workers Union has kept them on the job more than five months after the expiration of their contract.
In addition to fighting for wage and benefit parity, workers must put a stop to the privatization of the Metro system and split shifts, which place employees at the beck and call of their employers and expose them to numerous dangers. Instead, trillions of dollars must be poured into the public transit system in order to provide low-cost and dependable transportation to everyone. To fund this, workers must launch a political counteroffensive to radically redistribute society’s wealth so that the needs of the vast majority take precedence over the private accumulation of vast fortunes by the corporate and financial elite.
My Full Journalistic Article: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/20/tran-n20.html
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Since October 24, 130 bus operators, mechanics and other service technicians at the recently-privatized Cinder Bed Road facility in Northern Virginia have been on strike against the French-owned conglomerate Transdev, which had revenues of $7.3 billion in 2018. Last week bus drivers at Northern Virginia’s Fairfax Connector, a local transit service also contracted to Transdev, voted to strike “if an agreement is not reached” by November 30, when the contract expires for over 600 drivers.
Workers must reject the conspiracy between the ATU and the Democratic and Republican parties, which are all seeking to starve public infrastructure and impoverish workers in order to fund vast resources to the wealthy municipal bond holders.
Such committees will fight to unite with public metro employees, visiting WMATA garages and appealing to spread the strike. They must appeal to workers, including 40,000 New York City public transit workers at the Metropolitan Transit Authority, who are fighting the expansion of part-time and temporary labor and other draconian demands, even as the Transport Workers Union has kept them on the job more than five months after the expiration of their contract.
In addition to fighting for wage and benefit parity, workers must put a stop to the privatization of the Metro system and split shifts, which place employees at the beck and call of their employers and expose them to numerous dangers. Instead, trillions of dollars must be poured into the public transit system in order to provide low-cost and dependable transportation to everyone. To fund this, workers must launch a political counteroffensive to radically redistribute society’s wealth so that the needs of the vast majority take precedence over the private accumulation of vast fortunes by the corporate and financial elite.
My Full Journalistic Article: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/20/tran-n20.html
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