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Transit Assaults: A Disturbing Trend

Transit Assaults: A Disturbing Trend

Assaults on transit workers, a disturbing and violent trend across the U.S. and Canada.

Women’s History Month: Josephine Casey, an ATU trailblazer

Women’s History Month: Josephine Casey, ATU’s first female local officer and convention delegate

GAO report criticizes WMATA on SafeTrack

In the last year, SafeTrack has inconvenienced riders, workers and taxpayers.

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New ATU Mobile App for Smartphones

Looking for the latest news and updates about ATU? There’s an app for that. Looking for ATU events or actions in your area? There’s an app for that. Looking for photos of ATU in action? There’s an app for that.

More and more people are using smartphones everyday to stay connected, informed and involved. And that’s why ATU has launched a New Mobile App.

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ATU International on the Resignation of ATU Local 113 President Bob Kinnear

SILVER SPRING, MD: Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) International President Larry Hanley issued the following statement following the resignation of Bob Kinnear as president of ATU Local 113 in Toronto. 

“With the resignation of Bob Kinnear as their president, today marks a new beginning for the 11,000 members of ATU Local 113. The last six weeks have been extraordinarily difficult for them and their families and, in fact, the entire labour movement. Fortunately, union democracy and international solidarity have prevailed.

Three generations of bus drivers toast great-grandfather's 100th in vintage bus

For his 100th birthday, John Harlow's family wanted to give him a ride down memory lane, literally.

They rented a 1964 G.M.C. for the former bus driver to do a Sunday morning tour through some of his life's most pivotal stops around Metro Vancouver.

It was a vehicle Harlow was familiar with.

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ATU International News Feed

  • Rider attacks Thunder Bay bus driver
    ATU Local 966 is calling on the City of Thunder Bay to develop better processes and quicker responses for dealing with assaults on bus drivers after the latest incident. — Sep 19
  • First Amendment victory for Pensacola transit workers, riders and community
    Local 1395-Pensacola, FL has withdrawn its lawsuit over First Amendment rights at transit stations after the County Commission passed a resolution reaffirming public forums at the Rosa Parks Transit Station. — Sep 13
  • Detroit Bus Drivers Expose Deplorable Working Conditions
    In a resolution passed by ATU Local 26, Detroit transit workers are demanding the city provide improvements and immediately fix bus operator workstations. Call for an end to riders spitting and assaults on drivers and rodents, bed bugs on buses. — Sep 11
  • ATU supporters protest at the start of Grand Rapids Labor-day walk
    As hundreds of participants lined up to start the five-mile walk, Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss was disrupted from addressing the crowd when she was met by protesters supporting the local Amalgamated Transit Union. — Sep 6
  • An ATU hero in Cincinnati, OH
    19-year veteran driver Shalita McDaniel saved a man who collapsed in front of her bus. The Local 627-Cincinnati, OH, member stopped her bus called 911 stayed with the man who had seizures until help arrived. — Aug 30
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