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Transit is a civil rightWhat’s next...for mass transit,for working families,for justice?

President Obama reflects on the legacy of Rosa Parks at the seat on which she defied the Alabama law that said African-Americans could only sit in the back of the bus, propelling a civil rights firestorm that continues to this day.

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LAWRENCE J. HANLEYInternational President

ROBERT H. BAKER International Executive Vice President

OSCAR OWENSInternational Secretary-Treasurer

INTERNATIONAL VICE PRESIDENTSLARRY R. KINNEAR

Ashburn, ON – [email protected]

JAVIER M. PEREZ, JR.Kansas City, MO – [email protected]

RICHARD M. MURPHYNewburyport, MA – [email protected]

BOB M. HYKAWAYCalgary, AB – [email protected]

WILLIAM G. McLEANReno, NV – [email protected]

JANIS M. BORCHARDTMadison, WI – [email protected]

PAUL BOWENCanton, MI – [email protected]

KENNETH R. KIRK Lancaster, TX – [email protected]

GARY RAUENClayton, NC – [email protected]

MARCELLUS BARNESFlossmore, IL – [email protected]

RAY RIVERA Lilburn, GA – [email protected]

YVETTE SALAZAR Thornton, CO – [email protected]

GARY JOHNSON, SR. Cleveland, OH – [email protected]

ROBIN WEST Halifax, NS – [email protected]

JOHN COSTA Kenilworth, NJ – [email protected]

CHUCK WATSON Syracuse, NY – [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVESANTHONY WITHINGTON

Sebastopol, CA – [email protected]

DENNIS ANTONELLIS Spokane, WA – [email protected]

CLAUDIA HUDSON Oakland, CA – [email protected]

STEPHAN MACDOUGALL Boston, MA – [email protected]

ANTHONY GARLAND Washington, DC – [email protected]

CANADIAN DIRECTORMICHAEL MAHAR

Rexdale, ON - [email protected]

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NEWSBRIEFS

INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS EMERITUSInternational President Jim La Sala, ret.

International President Warren George, ret.

International Executive Vice President Ellis Franklin, ret. International Executive Vice President Mike Siano, ret.

Transit ridership up in the U.S. and Canada: It will come as no surprise to ATU members that more people are riding mass

transit and want better access. A Canadian Urban Transit Association report found transit ridership continued to grow with an increase of 3.2 percent. Meanwhile in the U.S. ridership was up 2.6 percent. “The numbers don’t lie; more people are riding public transportation everyday and want more access,” said International President Larry Hanley. “Lawmakers need to recognize that we must invest to meet this rising demand.”

Orlando member goes above and beyond: ATU wants to acknowledge Local 1596 member Lynee Butler for her heart-warming actions following the unavoidable crash of her bus with the car driven by an expectant mother. When she discovered that no one was helping the soon-to-be mother, Butler went beyond her assigned duties to visit the woman in the hospital. They have since developed an ongoing friendship. Butler’s actions best exemplify the familial bond our members build with their passengers.

Investment in public transit can help fight climate change: Superstorm Sandy’s disastrous effects serve as a

reminder that climate change is still a vital issue. That’s why President Hanley teamed up with Bill McKibben of 350.org – an organization working to fight global warming – to address the issue in Huffington Post. Their plan shows how stopping transit cuts, redirecting federal investment to expand U.S. transit, and making transit free would decrease our nation’s carbon emissions.


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2 International Officers & General Executive Board

NEWS Briefs

3 Index Page

5 International President’s Message: See the Angry Rich

6 International Executive Vice President’s Message: Congratulations Everyone! Together We Won!

7 International Secretary-Treasurer’s Message: Thank You - Now, Let’s Get Back to Work!

8 NTSB Avoids Overtime Issue in Hollow Call for Greater OTR Safety

Portland, OR, First Transit Workers Join ATU

9 Legislative Report: No Rest for the Weary

12 ATU HQ Turned into Obama Campaign HQ

13 National Transit Voter Week Energizes ATU GOTV Campaign

16 Anatomy of a Victory

18 Mass Transit: One of the Winners on Election Day

19 Calgary president to direct Canadian Council, Garland appointed IR

Moncton members back at work ending 5-month Codiac lockout

20 HAD ENOUGH! Call for Driver Shields, Left Side Driver Doors Mount as Violence Against Operators Soars

21 Assailant Discovers He Can Run, But Cannot Hide – From Mom

22 Atlanta Members Fight Racism, Poverty, Privatization at MARTA

23 Study: MARTA Major Atlanta ‘Job-Creator’

24 Maurer Scholarship Winners Provide Insights into Labor Heritage

25 Legal Notice

28 Translations (Spanish)

30 In Memoriam

31 The 57th International Convention Notice

32 Our Fight Continues

4 HURRICANE SANDY APPEAL

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ATU, LABOR TO CONGRESS: RAISE TAXES ON THE RICH, AID MIDDLE CLASS

11 VICTORIOUS! ATU HELPS PUT OBAMA OVER THE TOP

14 UNPRECEDENTED ATU CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFUL

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LARRY HANLEY, INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT

See The Angry Rich

With courage, commitment, and compassion ATU members met the challenges of 2012. In the past year alone, the Union rushed to help victims of a storm that ravaged the east coast, privatization in Canada, battled anti-labor legislation in the midwest, and fought to elect a president who will stand up for us. Labor unions are the economic power tools of struggling working people. We serve no purpose if we are not fighting every day to make the lives of the poor and the middle class better.

Our job is to organize power and this year many ATU members stepped up and made their Union more powerful. My hat is off to you – the ATU volunteer. Our efforts this year to encourage our passengers to vote were truly extraordinary and will mark the beginning of the transformation of our Union.

President Obama, re-elected with the blood, sweat and hopes of so many working people has already taken a bold stand in Michigan for workers and their organizations. We thank President Obama and hope that, freed from ever again having to run in an election, he will continue to boldly lead the United States.

I spent Election Day in a van at a public housing project in Cleveland, OH, helping get voters to the polls. A woman jumped on and thanked us for the ride. She said, “I have a car, but I can’t afford the gas.” The polling place was about a mile and a half away. By my quick calculation, this meant that she could not afford the fifty cents or so it would take for her to vote. This reminded me that America has turned its back on growing armies of the poor among us.

There is no public discussion about poverty in America except the one in which rich people who hate paying their fair share of taxes gripe about more people using food stamps and other public assistance.

If you watch networks like CNBC or FOX you will see the angry millionaires attacking the poor almost daily. A recent column I read in Crains New York – a ruling class journal if there ever was one – told of the fierce competition to rent Manhattan apartments with starting rates of $50,000 a month.

The people who can afford these rents should be shamed by the fact that more children sleep each night hungry than ever in our history. They are no more embarrassed than Marie Antoinette who, when told the poor had no bread, said, “let them eat cake.”

This is our business – it is why we exist as unions. Many of our members struggle every day just to feed their kids and in the broader, less fortunate ranks of our society – where people have no jobs and no unions – it is worse.

I promise all our members to renew this Union’s mission in 2013 to work on your behalf. But I ask you also to be mindful that whatever we have – our wages, our healthcare, our retirement security – is derived from the society around us, and the communities we build. We cannot hide in the fortress of ATU. We must work for a better social contract that lifts up all people and demands that those who benefit most from all our work share the wealth.

Dr. King said, “We cannot walk alone.” All of our lives are woven into, and from the lives of those who share our time on earth.

In 2012 we fought hard to put transit on the national agenda. We must spend 2013 making it clear, as Rosa Parks did, that transit is a civil right.

“..I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress who cannot help themselves.”

— Robert F. Kennedy Speech, Athens, Georgia, May 6, 1961

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BOB BAKER, INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!

TOGETHER WE WON!!What an election! What an effort!

Kudos to everyone and thank you to International President Hanley, and our Executive Board for leadership above and beyond anything our Union has seen in recent history. And congratulations to all of our members who carried out a successful program that we will continue to pursue in both the U.S. and Canada.

What we all experienced under the International President’s leadership, especially during the last several months, was a unique and new way of doing things that absolutely gets the job done. The results were astonishing.

Victory

The U.S. victory is particularly sweet because it brought the ATU family together from every corner of North America to campaign during a time in which the Union was being attacked like never before. But no matter what, we kept saying “Together We Can Win!” and “Together We Will Win!”

We had victories in one U.S. battleground state after another – Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada and the others – in spite of the disruptions caused by Hurricane Sandy (we’ll address that a little later).

Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and the wealthiest 2% of America couldn’t believe what we accomplished together. They’ll never understand that you are the reason we were so successful. And that you are the reason we will continue to get things done!

HEY, TOGETHER WE WON!

You can take a little breather, now – but, not for long. The 2% will never stop, so stay tuned, and be ready. With

your help next year and every year thereafter, this program will work.

Our members in need

Now, we can concentrate a lot more on helping our sisters and brothers devastated by Hurricane Sandy. This storm destroyed a lot of our members’ property, wiped out homes and even took lives. They need your love, support and prayers, now, more than ever.

I received many calls during the last week of the campaign, especially from our sisters and brothers in Canada and out west, asking what they could do for the hurricane victims. We asked them to send their love, financial support, and prayers to those in need.

They may never know how timely their donations were for some of our members who were at the end of their rope.

And so I’m asking you and every member who has not done so, now, to donate whatever you can to our members who have lost almost everything because of Hurricane Sandy. And, for all of them, “Thank You!”

In closing, we hope everyone has a Blessed and Happy Holiday Season, and please take a few moments to say a prayer for all of our ATU family members affected by this terrible tragedy.

In Solidarity,

Bob and Teresa Baker & Family


OSCAR OWENS, INTERNATIONAL SECRETARY-TREASURER

THANK YOU – NOW, LET’S GET BACK TO WORK!

The first thing I want to say is “Thank you!”

Thank you to all who participated in our U.S. Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) effort. Thank you for helping us elect more pro-transit and pro-union candidates to office – including President Obama and Vice President Biden. And thank you for helping us pass so many transit ballot measures across the United States.

You helped us undertake the largest and most effective GOTV campaign in our history, so it isn’t surprising that pundits across the political spectrum credit ATU and Labor’s “ground game” as a major reason, if not the reason many candidates were elected, and transit measures passed.

The work that you did during this election campaign will serve as a template for our future campaigns not just in the United States, but in Canada as well.

How did it happen?

You got up early on your days off to pass out literature at bus stops and train stations, and convinced riders and sympathetic groups to join us in the fight.

You phone-banked and knocked on doors. You got people registered, and took them to the polls. And you endured the insults and rude comments of some who seemed to have nothing but hatred in their hearts for the president and progressives in general.

Nevertheless, you persisted, you voted, and you shocked America with election results that were anything but predictable.

Correcting a big mistake

The second thing I want to say is, “It’s time to get back to work.”

Let me explain:

After the historic U.S. election of 2008, Labor thought it could simply sit back and watch Congress pass legislation that would defend and extend the rights of working people.

That was a big mistake.

This year, we dare not allow the most effective political operation we’ve every built to atrophy through disuse. We need to go back to work.

Member activists ‘redeployed’

So International President Hanley redeployed our U.S. member activists to pressure the lame duck Congress not to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or mass transit as part of any “grand bargain” to balance the budget.

This network will grow and continue to work in 2013, when Congress will make decisions no less critical to the future of our Union and our country. So you can see that this coalition and political network have already become an essential and on-going part of our U.S. operation, and will serve as a basis for our planning in Canada.

If you have not already done so, I urge U.S. members to make similar, on-going monthly contributions to the ATU-COPE fund that supports our political activities. And please consider joining your fellow members in this new and exciting volunteer effort. It’s a great experience. You can find out more information at: www.atu.org

Happy New Year

I hope that you have had a wonderful holiday season and offer you the best wishes from my family to yours for a happy and healthy new year.


NTSB avoids overtime issue in hollow call for greater OTR safetyImproving over-the-road (OTR) bus safety is one

of the National Transportation Safety Board’s 2013 “Most Wanted” safety concerns. The NTSB reconfirmed something that ATU has been saying for years – that “driver fatigue” is the number one cause of bus accidents and fatal crashes.

But, none of the solutions suggested by the safety board include amending the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to force interstate bus companies to pay their drivers the same overtime wages required of almost all other U.S. employers. As a result, ATU believes, these proposals are doomed to failure.

‘Conspiracy of silence’

ATU International President Larry Hanley sharply criticized the omission saying the NTSB is ignoring “the ‘elephant in the room’ – the dangerous practices

that, unchecked, virtually ensure that there will be more tragic and deadly accidents in the OTR industry.”

ATU’s white paper, Sudden Death Overtime, revealed that many OTR drivers are routinely forced to work longer hours and have shorter rest periods than the law allows. And they often work second jobs during their rest periods to make ends meet. But the NTSB refuses to recommend lifting what Hanley calls the “‘free pass’ that encourages interstate bus operators to overwork their employees in ‘rolling sweatshops’.”

“Federal government agencies, carriers and members of Congress are partners in a conspiracy of silence about the real cause of driver fatigue, which is rooted in wage rates, and the absence of fair labor overtime standards for intercity bus drivers,” Hanley continued. “Meanwhile drivers are being scapegoated and convicted of crimes in these accidents while companies go ‘scott-free’.”

Paratransit drivers and dispatchers working for First Transit Region 3 recently voted to join Local

757-Portland, OR. By an overwhelming margin,

the 166 employees voted to form the union in an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

Local President Bruce Hansen says, “Our union welcomes the paratransit operators into our union family. These workers stood together to form their union and we will stand with them to ensure that their voice is heard.”

Cheryl Rain, a First Transit worker, says, “This isn’t about being against local management – it’s about collectively bargaining a fair set of rules that work for everyone.”

“When I think about my future and family, I know that having a union and a fair voice in the workplace is the difference between this being just a job and a true career,” says Christopher Brown, another First Transit worker.

Portland, OR, First Transit workers join ATU

First Transit Region 3 paratransit workers rally during their successful campaign to join Local 757-Portland, OR.



Elections have consequences, and with the reelection of Barack Obama, ATU members can enjoy the

holidays knowing that the new year will not bring a president who is looking to do everything he can to silence working people by undercutting unions.

In addition, the federal government is not likely to slash public transit spending to obscene levels. And, if you have a family member who relies on your health insurance through Obamacare, don’t worry, it’s here to stay.

However, this does not mean that all is well in our world. There is still much unfinished business. Cash-strapped transit systems continue to make painful service cuts and layoffs, and due to the resistance of Republicans who still control the House of Representatives, no federal transit operating aid is on its way (with the exception of some small and medium sized cities).

Laying the groundwork

The two-year federal transportation bill just went into effect on October 1, but already transit advocates are laying the groundwork for new, more progressive legislation.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will have a new chair in 2013, Rep. Bill Shuster, R-PA. During the past two years, the Committees’ Republican leadership has shut Democrats out of every important decision on several pieces of legislation, including the surface transportation bill, passing numerous bills aimed at the heart of organized labor.

Shuster says that he plans to turn the clocks back to the days when the committee known as “T&I” was one of the few places that Congress still worked in a bipartisan manner for the good of the country. Time will tell.

ATU will attempt to work with the new chair in a broad coalition with transit riders, environmentalists, smart growth advocates, religious organizations, and others to produce the best possible transit bill. The first step: making sure there is enough money in the transportation trust fund to increase the size of the program.

Battle begins anew in Michigan

As this edition of In Transit goes to press, the shortsighted, Tea Party-led Michigan legislature was in the process of passing so-called “right-to-work” legislation (prohibiting unions from requiring a worker to pay dues, even when they are covered by a union-negotiated collective bargaining agreement) that will hurt every working family in the state. ATU was working hard in Michigan to fight against this anti-union legislation.

If this can happen in Michigan, where more than 670,000 workers belong to a union, it can happen anywhere, and the AFL-CIO and its affiliates are on guard waiting for similar battles in 2013.

State transit legislation

ATU expects major transit legislation next year in at least five states, including Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. While funding is the key issue in all of these fights, privatization, workers’ rights, and other matters will also be in the forefront.

So, enjoy the holidays. You’ve earned it. But don’t be surprised if we come calling for your help long before Groundhog Day.

L E G I S L AT I V E R E P O R T

No rest for the weary



Putting the U.S. congress on notice, ATU deployed its activists who were so effective in mobilizing

transit riders to vote on Election Day to campaign to end the Bush tax cuts for the rich, and prevent cuts in important social benefit programs and transportation.

“The majority of working Americans sent a message on Election Day,” says International President Larry Hanley, “by voting for an economy that does not pay for tax cuts to the wealthy with benefit cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.”

In conjunction with the AFL-CIO and other unions, ATU launched a campaign in November warning both parties not to sell out working Americans and make wealthy Americans pay their fair share.

‘No time to let up’ Transportation bill reauthorization, 2014 mid terms, 2016

“This is no time to let up,” says Hanley. “We’ve just completed the most extensive and successful Get-Out-

The-Vote campaign in our history to get President Obama and pro-transit, pro-worker candidates elected, but more challenges lie ahead. We must continue our momentum to take on these challenges with the same commitment and dedication.”

The transportation bill will be up for reauthorization again in 2014. The 2014 mid term elections will be upon us before we know it and presidential hopefuls will begin jockeying for 2016.

The ATU will be watching, working and reporting on what individual members of Congress do with regard to transit issues in the coming Congress.

ATU, LABOR TO CONGRESS:

Raise taxes on the rich, aid the middle classKEEPING OUR MOMENTUM



“Working families across this great country have spoken,” said International President Larry

Hanley about the re-election of President Obama and Vice President Biden to a second term. “It is time for our nation to move forward and continue the fight for economic and social justice for all Americans.”

“We are proud of the role ATU members across the country played in an unprecedented campaign to mobilize transit riders to vote and elect pro-transit and pro-worker candidates like Tammy Duckworth, Elizabeth Warren, Chris Murphy, Tammy Baldwin and others,” Hanley added. “From Cleveland to Denver to Seattle to Jacksonville, 10,000 of our brothers and sisters reached out to more than one million passengers at bus stops and transit centers.”

A much larger role

ATU members across the United States watched the election returns, November 6, with keen

interest, having taken part in the largest Get-Out-the Vote campaign in ATU’s history. Beginning with the Union’s political training across the country, the “Rocking the Transit World” events in Cleveland and Denver and the National Transit Voter week, members fanned out across the country in a coordinated effort to mobilize riders to vote and elect pro-transit and pro-union candidates.

Chief among them, of course, was President Obama and Vice President Biden who were able to claim victory far earlier in the evening than even their most ardent supporters expected.

VICTORIOUS!ATU HELPS PUT OBAMA OVER THE TOP FOR SECOND TERM


The ‘ground game’

The key to victory in state after state was the ground game that ATU activists were taught at the Denver and Cleveland seminars. The success of that operation was particularly evident in Ohio and Colorado – battleground states where the Union concentrated a great deal of its resources.

The combined efforts of ATU, the labor movement, progressive activists, and ordinary citizens, once again proved the value of “retail politics” in electoral contests. The unprecedented amount of money that poured into the Romney campaign could not compete with the Labor and Democratic Get-Out-The-Vote efforts.

ATU members hand out campaign literature to passengers at a train station in Hoboken, NJ.


ATU HQ turned into Obama Campaign HQ

In the last week of the election, ATU headquarters in Washington, DC, was ground zero for the Obama

Campaign’s final, critical push in the battleground state of Virginia. The Obama team set up a campaign office with a full cadre of staffers at the ATU international office. Around the clock, volunteers including ATU international staff did phone banking and more than 400 people were sent into Northern Virginia for door-to-door canvasing.

Virginia was one of the key states that pushed President Obama to victory on November 6. The ATU was proud to have played a critical role in helping to deliver a decisive victory in the state for the president.

Below: Obama campaign volunteers organize groups to go door-knocking in Northern Virginia and do phone-banking at international headquarters in Washington, DC, during the week before the election.


November 6 marked the re-election of a U.S. Administration that is expected to continue

to fight for mass transit, and ATU locals nationwide played a huge part in making that possible. Not only did members rally their sisters and brothers, transit riders, local organizations, and workers to get out and vote, they got political candidates involved as well.

As part of ATU’s nationwide Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) campaign, ATU held a “National Transit Voter Week” to bring public transit to the ballot box. From New Jersey to Missouri to California to Wisconsin more than 50 events took place across the U.S., including candidate bus ride-a-longs, rallies, leafleting, press conferences, and other activities leading up to election day. An estimated one million pieces of literature were distributed by over 10,000 off-duty members with the goal of making mass transit an issue in the election and beyond.

High Gear

The GOTV drive kicked into high gear early in October

with “Rockin’ the Transit Vote” conferences in Denver and Cleveland in which ATU members across the country developed strategies and planned campaigns to mobilize riders in their hometowns to register and vote.

“Congressional candidates rode public transit to make people aware of how important mass transit is to our economic recovery, and how it reduces our dependency on foreign oil, eases traffic congestion and much more,” said ATU International President Larry Hanley.

A stronger voice

“Transit riders have been ignored the last couple of years by legislators who may never have actually been on a bus,” said Hanley. “National Transit Voter Week was successful in engaging candidates and giving riders a stronger voice in Washington.”

Ridership is higher than it’s been in decades, yet systems are still cutting service and raising fares because they don’t have enough money to run their service at current levels.

Hanley commended the candidates and elected officials who participated in the events for recognizing the fundamental role public transportation plays in our country, and taking a strong public stand to support it.

“These candidates knew the importance of transit and that riders made a real difference in this election,” Hanley continued. “Fourteen million Americans depend on public transportation each day and they were a powerful block of voters who delivered a victory for President Obama and pro-transit, pro-worker candidates.”

National Transit Voter Week energizes ATU GOTV campaign


Massachusetts Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren with Local 174-Fall River members


Over 10,000 members distributed over a million pieces of ATU literature in support of mass transit and labor in the November 6 U.S. elections. Local and national media outlets took notice, elevating the Union’s profile during the drive. By focusing on issues, the Union was able provide a lot of information that led voters to elect pro-transit and pro-union candidates without engaging in the negative political rhetoric that characterized so much of the campaign.

Unprecedented ATU campaign successfulLargest political campaign in Union’s historY

Local President Jonothan Walker, 1287-Kansas City, MO, joins fellow ATU activists in leafleting riders as they emerge from a downtown Washington, DC Metro station during the 2012 Legislative Conference, March 13.

Newly-elected local officers make their feelings clear at the ATU headquarters, holding the “I’m In” signs declaring their commitment to the ATU’s election campaign.

A Cleveland commuter scans one of the campaign pieces ATU activists handed out during the “Rocking the Transit Vote” conferences held in Cleveland, OH, and Denver, CO.

Not everyone can stay as enthusiastic after hours of leafleting as the daughter of a Local 1593 member, in green on the left, in Tampa, FL.


While most effective Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) campaigns offer voters rides

on election day, Local 519-La Crosse, WI, took that practice several steps further, by proposing that the city forego collecting bus fare on Election Day. The local even went further than that by reimbursing the city for the revenue lost that day.

“The aim was to make it easier for people to vote,” Local President Dale Anderson said. “It’s just a civic-minded thing we thought was a good thing to do.”

And while the local hoped voters would back candidates that support transit and pro-labor programs, no partisan information was posted, and riders were not asked about their preferences. In fact, they didn’t even have to be voting — all rides that day were free, not just trips to poll sites.

La Crosse local covers bill for fare-free Election Day

Local 1309 in San Diego, CA, combined their ATU campaign, November 5, with a successful drive to block Proposition 32 – a union-busting proposal that was on the California ballot.

Local 268 members in Cleveland, OH, provided voters with transportation for registration and voting.

Secretary Treasurer Tommy Bellfield, 1005-Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN (left), thanks Rep. Keith Ellison, D-MN, (right) who enthusiastically joined ATU members leafleting for mass transit in the Twin Cities.

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IVP POLITICAL TRAINING PLANNING FOR MOBILIZATION

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VICTORYATU planning for the 2012 U.S. election began in the fall of 2010. That is when the International began training ATU activists in the art of local coalition building to fight for mass transit as a civil right. Those efforts continued with Legislative Conferences for active members and seminars for International Vice Presidents in 2011 and 2012.

The campaign picked up steam with political mobilization trainings for local officers in Denver and Cleveland which culminated in the first “Rockin’ the Transit World” live webcast. ATU kept the heat on with more than 50 events during National Transit Voter week. In the final weeks of the election ATU, door-knocking, phone-banking and more helped elect pro-transit candidates to office (including President Obama) and helped pass many important transit ballot measures across the nation.

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RIDER ENGAGEMENT

NATIONAL TRANSIT VOTER WEEK


Mass Transit: One of the

winners on Election Day

The election wasn’t all about presidents and partisanship. There were also numerous transit

measures on local ballots across the United States. Americans for Transit (A4T) and ATU teamed up with ATU locals and numerous community organizations to win for transit on ballots. The good news is that across the country, Americans continue to affirm their desire for more transit, not less. Nearly 80% of the measures to save and expand transit service passed in 2012. Here is a quick rundown on some of the transit ballot campaigns:

Columbia, SC-Win: Grassroots energy and power delivered an election day win for riders and operators in South Carolina. Voters in Columbia said yes to a one-cent sales tax that will increase transit funding by millions in the years ahead. Local 610 teamed up with the South Carolina Progressive Network to advocate for the measure. They focused on educating and turning out transit supportive voters.

Tacoma, WA-Loss: This is the one dark spot in this year’s transit vote election results. Voters in Pierce County, WA, were asked to increase their sales tax in order to restore and save transit service. Despite vigorous campaigning from Local 758 and transit advocates, the election was decided by the narrowest of margins and the measure lost by 700 out of 200,000 votes cast. While the outcome was disheartening, it is a good reminder that in elections every single vote and

volunteered hour spent at the doors, on the phone, or talking to voters, make the difference between success and failure.

Sylvania and Spencer, OH-Win: Residents of Sylvania and Spencer, OH (outside of Toledo), were asked if they wanted to leave their regional transit service (TARTA). The conservative politicians that forced the ballot question attempted to frame the measure as an opportunity to reduce taxes. The politicians failed and transit riders and the ATU won. Thanks to the community outreach efforts of Local 697, voters overwhelmingly rejected the effort to remove their suburban cities from the transit district. Through strategic outreach the conversation was changed from reducing taxes to saving service for the people who depend on it.

This year’s transit votes have resoundingly reaffirmed what can happen when ATU locals team up with transit riders and advocacy organizations… transit can win. These wins mean more service for riders, more ATU jobs, and stronger ATU/community partnerships. As Americans for Transit and ATU continue to work to address local transit funding crises, ballot measures will continue to be a very important funding and organizing option in our toolbox. Be sure to check out A4T’s website, americansfortransit.org, for updates and information on how your local can work with Americans for Transit.


Moncton members back at work ending 5-month Codiac lockout

“I feel absolutely great,” says Local 1290 President George Turple, “I

couldn’t feel better, it’s finally over.”

That’s the way the Moncton, NB, local president felt after his members voted to ratify a new contract with Codiac Transpo by 91 percent. The vote brings a grueling and acrimonious five-month lockout to an end.

The Moncton council voted unanimously to accept the 9.2-year agreement at a special meeting that evening.

Wages were the main sticking point in the lockout that began in late June. The local members have been working without a contract for two years.

Former Local President Mike Mahar, 583-Calgary, AB,

was elected Canadian director by a special conference of the ATU Canadian Council, December 2.

Mahar has served as an ATU officer for the past 17 years, as president of Local 583, as an international representative, and vice-chair of the Canadian Council.

Mahar replaces Stan Dera, former president of Local 1573-Brampton, ON, who served as Canadian director for two-and-a-half years.

New international representative

International President Larry Hanley has appointed former Recording Secretary Anthony Garland, 689-Washington, DC, as an international representative.

Garland has 20 years of experience in the DC local. He has handled hundreds of grievances, sat on numerous arbitration cases, and has been a member of contract

negotiating teams. Prior to being elected recording secretary, Garland served as a shop steward/executive board member and assistant business agent of the local.

Calgary president to direct Canadian Council, Garland appointed IR


Assaults on New York City bus drivers are up 30 percent. Violence against Philadelphia transit

operators has doubled. The “transit terrorism” that has been plaguing both Canada and the United State is getting more attention in the American media, and driver shields are one of the most talked about solutions.

Cleveland

Violence against operators in Cleveland, OH, hadn’t received much attention until the video of an incident between an RTA driver and a woman who was attacking him went “viral” on the Internet. Many might have thought it was an isolated event until it was reported just days later that another driver had hot coffee thrown in his face, and another was punched while driving.

RTA says that the number of assaults on their drivers has jumped from nine in 2011, to 25 this year. The agency will be testing out driver shields in response to a demand from Local 268 President William Nix that the barriers be installed on all of RTA’s 450 buses.

Meanwhile RTA and the local have formed a committee to study and pursue other safety improvements and are pushing for stronger state laws against transit driver assaults.

Kansas City

Everything may be up-to-date in Kansas City, MO, but that still doesn’t keep ATU operators from being attacked there. A bus video was recently made public in which a driver was coldcocked by a departing passenger for no apparent reason. Then another driver was later viciously punched, yet again.

Kansas City’s ATU, Local 1287, and their counterparts in St. Louis are lobbying for a law that would make assaults against transit workers a felony in Missouri. A couple of years ago, it passed both houses of the legislature, but Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed it over concerns about a wording error.

New Jersey

NJ Transit estimates that driver assaults are averaging one per week. The NJ Transit board of directors responded by approving the fitting of 820 NJ Transit buses with Plexiglas driver shields.


had enough!call for driver shields, left side driver doors

mount as violence against operators soars

Photo: Jesse A. Ward for News



An 18-year-old Florida man discovered that while he could evade the law, he could not avoid a

confrontation with his mother who had him turn himself in for assaulting a Broward County bus operator.

Surveillance cameras recorded the incident in which the young man punched a driver in the face who attempted to stop him from putting his feet on a seat and repeatedly pulling a stop bell.

The assailant ran, and he might have gotten away with the crime if someone hadn’t recognized him in a local news broadcast, and called his mother. The hit-and-run rider turned himself in and has been charged with battery of a public transit employee.

Assailant discovers he can run, but cannot hide – from Mom


“This has been a long time in the works, and we can’t have these bus shields installed soon enough,” says ATU New Jersey Council Chair Ray Greaves. “While we know it is not the ultimate answer to solving all of our problems when it comes to operator assaults, we are confident that these shields will be proven to be beneficial, enhancing the safety of our members and the riding public.”

ATU has assembled a committee of representatives from transit unions, management, and safety experts to examine bus driver assault and search for solutions.

Driver protection practices survey published

What are U.S. and Canadian transit agencies doing to protect their drivers? The answers can be found in Practices to Protect Bus Operators from Passenger Assault, a new study by the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP), a research arm of the U.S. Federal Transit Administration.

While transit employees will be familiar with most of the practices reviewed, a couple of items stick out among the broad range of protective measures evaluated in the report. Along with items such as barriers and video surveillance, TCRP includes “DNA kits” that are used in London to help identify and prosecute offenders who spit upon bus and train operators. The report also looks at “self defense tools and training” that are provided by some agencies.


They say Atlanta is a city “too busy to hate,” a wonderful slogan first coined by a former mayor

that seems to strike just the right note for a place some consider the cradle of the civil rights movement.

But now those who run the Metro Atlanta Regional Transit Authority (MARTA) seem to be returning to a time before the civil rights movement when people were left behind because of their race.

Back to the Jim Crow era

They are the non-white residents who live and work in the greater Atlanta region as well as MARTA employees and passengers. Every day, in a throwback to the Jim Crow era, their basic civil rights are denied by the MARTA board, the state’s governor and the Georgia state legislators, who insist that no state funds go toward improving the lives of Local 732 members, their customers, small business owners, the elderly, the disabled and students who rely on mass transit to go about their daily routines.

And, now there’s talk of privatizing the system, which would be an even greater setback for transit workers and passengers alike. Just as African-Americans were once told to sit in the back of the bus, they’re told their need for a living wage and adequate transportation must take a back seat to the wish list of the white majority.

The privatization proposal, “is a clear attack on labor, and ultimately it is an attack on the community,” says Local 732 President Curtis Howard. “We’ve been giving concessions (for years) to keep our jobs. We don’t have any more to give.”

No raise for five years

Local 732 members have not had a raise in five years;

‘it’s the economy,’ you know, as any anti-union pundit, armed with stacks of “studies” from right-wing think tankers will tell you.

There is only thing these “thinkers” think about and it’s how to destroy the labor movement in America, and if some non-white taxpayers get caught in the cross fire, well, that’s just too bad. They can walk to work.

The think tanks, coincidentally, are funded by some of the largest and financially successful companies in the country, who always have their hands out when government money is available (think the TARP bank bailout).

The good news is that Local President Howard and his board are fighting back by publicizing the information in a powerful book written in 2004 that outlines how discrimination works in the 21st century. Highway Robbery, Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity details how MARTA’s board has discriminated against African-Americans, Latinos, Asians and persons with disabilities.

Atlanta members fight racism, poverty, privatization at MARTA


The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) has become a very

important part of Atlanta’s economy. That is the only conclusion one can draw from the results of a recent study published, by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia.

MARTA can now provide objective measures of system’s benefit to its service region thanks to the institute’s economic impact analysis, which found that:

• The number of people who take MARTA to and from work tripled over the last five years.

• Almost 150,000 workers, including car owners, take MARTA to and from work every week.

• MARTA spending supported between 20,000 and 37,000 jobs during the same period.

• MARTA-supported jobs infuse between $500 million to $1 billion into Atlanta’s economy.

• The spending by people working MARTA-dependent jobs supports another 80,000 jobs.

• 14 of Atlanta’s 18 fastest-growing economic sectors hire workers who heavily depend on MARTA.

Study: MARTA major Atlanta ‘job-creator’

Their arguments will also be bolstered by the results of a new study released by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia (see accompanying story), which revealed that the number of people who depend on MARTA has tripled over the last five years – the same period of time in which ATU members have received no wage increases.

Creating a pro-transit coalition

“We are working with our passengers, other unions, student groups, community activists and religious leaders to show how MARTA and the politicians who appoint its members think they are living in the 1950s,” Howard says. The coalition, he says, will also show how MARTA’s actions are bad for business and the environment. “Maybe even the think-tankers will agree with us,” he adds sardonically.

International President Larry Hanley has pledged his support, calling it is shocking that one of America’s largest cities, despite its “progressive” image, should have such blatant disregard for its non-white population and transit workers.

“ATU members are not going to be made the scapegoats for the failed economic policies of politicians who starve the transit system, increase fares, reduce ridership, increase pollution, hurt business and then say our members make too much money,” Hanley said.

Hanley said “There is no question that this is a major civil rights issue and we plan bring it national attention.”


Maurer Scholarship winners provide insights into Labor heritage

ALEXANDRA STEWART,a graduate of Washington Township High School, North Turnersville, NJ, will attend the University of Virginia where she plans to major in Biology. Stewart hopes to work in an area integral to the field of Biology. To Stewart unions represent the very freedom that America was built on. “Labor unions exemplify everything America stands for in the most superior way,” says Stewart. “With countless workers organized into a cohesive coalition of freedom fighters, even the earliest labor unions have proven to represent the freedom and independence that America was built on.”

DAVID CROWELL,a graduate of Belmont High School, Belmont, MA, plans to attend Boston University where he will major in Engineering. Crowell wants to follow in his father’s footsteps as an engineer, and work on making bridges and roadways safer for communities. Crowell is one of this year’s scholarship winners not just because of his scholastic achievements, but also for his belief that “unions are the backbone of the worker; they are the backbone of the economy.”

APRIL MYUNG,a graduate of the Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology, Fortlee, NJ, plans to attend the University of Pittsburgh where she will major in public policy and education. Myung wants to aid in changing education policy after college and views organized labor as a way of “restoring to the people their basic rights, [having] paved the way to protect and fight for them.”

CHRISTOPHER HAMMER,a graduate of Hempfield High School, Landisville, PA, will be attending the Pennsylvania College of Technology where he plans to major in heavy equipment diesel technology. Hammer’s long-term goals include working as a heavy equipment technician for large machines, and diagnostic and electrical systems. Hammer views unions as vital component toward strengthening our economy and helping workers remain healthy and safe. “In today’s world the labor union is invaluable to the U.S. worker,” says Hammer. “Without it, there would be high injury rates on job sites.”

MEGAN KWAN,a graduate of Glenforest Secondary School, Mississauga ON, plans to attend McGill University where she will major in Literature, including French literature. Kwan aspires to be a journalist and hopes to combine her love of writing and her fascination with various cultures to be a liaison between the French and English communities in Quebec or France. Kwan recognizes the positive role unions have played in Canadian society. “Despite the belief that organized labor has benefited solely union workers, all Canadians have profited from the creation of unions. Socially, organized labor has helped rid Canada of certain injustices such as gender inequality and immigration abuse,” says Kwan.

ATU is proud to present this year’s Gary Maurer Memorial Scholarship winners. The scholarship is in honor of the late international representative, Gary Maurer, who helped negotiate the toughest contracts and is remembered for his “high-spirited, in-your-face style of organizing.” He proved that rank and file union members can make an enormous contribution to the cause of working people.— Local 1700.

Five high school seniors were awarded a $5,000 scholarship in addition to a $2,000 scholarship awarded to a technical or vocational post-secondary school applicant. Meet this year’s winners:

ALAINA COTTRELL,a graduate of Cheektowaga Centrald, Buffalo, NY, plans to attend Canisius College where she will major in Biology/pre-med. Cottrell wants to work as an obstetrician/gynecologist and open a private clinic to provide prenatal care for underprivileged women. “Many of the safety and health programs implemented in the work force today are the results of labor unions and their fight for workers’ equality, safety, and health,” says Cottrell.


LEGAL NOTICETO: Employees Represented by ATU Locals in U.S. Bargaining Units Who Are Subject to Union Security Arrangements

Employees working under collective bargaining agreements which contain a union security clause are required, as a condition of their employment, to pay monthly dues or fees to the union. Regardless of the specific wording used in such a clause, however, formal union membership cannot be, and is not, actually mandated. Those who are members of the ATU pay monthly union dues. Nonmembers, or “agency feepayers,” meet their obligation through the payment of an equivalent “agency fee.”

Nonmembers subject to a union security clause also have the additional legal right to file objections to their funding of certain expenditures with which they may disagree. It has been determined in a series of judicial and agency decisions that objecting nonmembers may not properly be charged for union activities and expenditures which are “unrelated to collective bargaining, contract administration, or grievance adjustment” and/or are otherwise “nongermane to the collective bargaining process.”

Union security clauses are negotiated and ratified by your coworkers based upon the principle that everyone who benefits from the collective bargaining process should share in its costs. The wellbeing of all bargaining unit employees is improved immeasurably when the union obtains higher wages, better health care and retirement benefits, fairness in the discipline system, and the many other improvements realized in contract negotiations. But it would be difficult to provide such effective representation at the bargaining table without the influence earned through the “nongermane” political and ideological activities of the trade union movement.

There are considerable benefits of being a member of the ATU. Only members have the right to attend and participate in union meetings; the right to run in local union

elections and to otherwise nominate and vote for any candidates for union office; the right to participate in the formation of ATU bargaining demands; the right to vote on contract ratification questions; and the right to enjoy the many benefits of the Union Privilege Benefits Program, which offers low-interest credit cards, legal and travel services, prescription drug cards, and life insurance.

The Notice of Statement of Law and Procedures applies to the International Union expenditures and to the per capita tax portion of local union dues. Because the portion of local union expenditures which are spent on “chargeable” activities is at least as great as that of the International Union, in calculating the amount of local union dues to be paid by objectors, local unions may exercise the option of presuming that the International Union’s percentage of chargeable activities applies to the local union.

It remains our opinion that all of our organizing and all the legislative, litigation, and similar activities undertaken by the ATU – some of which tribunals have indicated may in part be ideological and, therefore, nonchargeable – are essential to improving the working conditions of all the employees we represent.

Lawrence J. Hanley International President

The following ATU Statement of Law and Procedures concerning union security objections applies only to the International per capita tax charged to objectors as part of local union fees (unless a local union exercises the option of presuming that the International percentage of chargeable activities applies to the local union).

1. Any ATU-represented nonmember employee employed in the United States, whether publicly or privately employed, who is subject to a union security clause conditioning continued employment on the payment of dues or fees has the right to become an objector to expenditures not related to collective bargaining, contract administration, grievance adjustment, or other chargeable expenditures. A current ATU member who chooses not to tender the full periodic dues and assessments uniformly required for the acquisition or retention of full membership in the union, but who instead opts to become an objector, must assume nonmember status prior to filing an objection through these procedures. An objector shall pay reduced fees calculated in accordance with Section 5.

2. To become an objector, an ATU-represented nonmember employee shall notify the International Secretary-Treasurer in writing of the objection within thirty (30) days of receiving this notice, or within thirty (30) days after first becoming subject to union security obligations and receiving notice of these procedures. The objection shall be signed and shall specify the objector’s current home mailing address, name the objector’s employer with which the applicable union security arrangements have been entered into, and identify the ATU local union number, if known. All objections should be mailed to the International Secretary-Treasurer, 5025 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016-4139 or transmitted by facsimile to 202-244-7824 with a separate cover page directing such to the attention of the International Secretary-Treasurer and specifying the subject thereof to be the “Election of Fee Objector Status.”

3. The following categories of expenditure are chargeable to the extent permitted by law:

a. All expenses concerning the negotiation of

agreements, practices and working conditions;

b. All expenses concerning the administration of agreements, practices and working conditions, including grievance handling, all activities related to arbitration, and discussion with employees in the bargaining unit or employer representatives regarding working conditions, benefits and contract rights;

c. Convention expenses and other normal union internal governance and management expenses;

d. Union business meeting expenses;

e. Publication expenses to the extent coverage is related to otherwise chargeable activities;

f. Expenses of litigation before the courts and administrative agencies related to contract administration, collective bargaining rights and internal governance;

g. Expenses for legislative, executive branch and administrative agency representation on legislative and regulatory matters closely related to contract ratification or the implementation of contracts;

h. All expenses for the education and training of members, officers, and staff intended to prepare the participants to better perform chargeable activities;

i. All strike fund expenditures and costs of group cohesion and economic action, e.g., general strike activity, informational picketing, etc.;

j. All funeral or dismemberment benefits; and

k. A proportional share of all overhead and administrative expenses.

4. Each December, the International Union shall publish these policies and procedures in the InTransit to provide to ATU-represented employees notice of their right to object and of the procedures for objecting.

5. The International retains an independent auditor who submits an annual report for the purpose of verifying the percentage of expenditures that fall within the categories

specified in Section 3. Similarly, if the local union has adopted these procedures but has not exercised the option of presuming that the International Union’s percentage of chargeable activities applies to the local union, the local union will arrange for the audit of the records, enabling the local union to verify annually the percentage of its total expenditures other than the International per capita tax that is chargeable to objectors. The amount of the International and local union expenditures falling within Section 3 made during that fiscal year which ended in the previous calendar year shall be the basis for calculating the reduced fees that must be paid by the objector for the current calendar year. For each objector, an amount equal to the reduced fees paid by the objector shall be placed in an interest-bearing escrow account.

6. The report(s) of the independent auditor(s) shall be completed prior to the publication of these policies and procedures in December. The report(s) shall include verification of the major categories of union expenses attributable to chargeable and nonchargeable activities. Local unions which have not exercised the option of presuming that the International Union’s percentage of chargeable activities applies to the local union shall provide a copy of their independent auditor’s report to each nonmember employee represented by the local union.

7. In the absence of an exclusive statutory review procedure, each objector may challenge the legal and arithmetical bases of the calculations contained in the independent auditor report(s) by filing an appeal with the International Secretary-Treasurer. Any such appeal must be made by sending a signed letter to the International Secretary-Treasurer postmarked or transmitted via facsimile no later than thirty (30) days after the International Secretary-Treasurer has sent a letter to the objector acknowledging receipt of the objection, or thirty (30) days after the International Union has sent a copy of the policies and procedures to the objector.

8. Except where state law provides an exclusive statutory review procedure as discussed in Note 3 below, all such appeals received by the union within the time limits specified above shall be determined by expeditious referral



to an impartial arbitrator appointed by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its rules for impartial determination of union fees and these procedures. The International Union will notify the AAA that challenges of its fees, which have been received from one or more individual employees, are to be determined by an impartial arbitrator and will include the names and addresses of the individuals who have filed the appeals challenging the union’s fees and who should be notified of the proceedings.

a. All appeals shall be consolidated for submission to the arbitrator. The presentation of evidence and argument to the arbitrator shall be either in writing or at a hearing, as determined by the arbitrator. The arbitrator shall receive and consider the evidence of witnesses by affidavit, giving it such weight as seems proper after consideration of any objection made to its admission. If a hearing is held, it shall be scheduled as soon as the arbitrator can schedule the hearing, and shall be at a location selected by the arbitrator to be the most convenient for those involved in the proceeding.

b. Each party to the arbitration shall bear its own costs. The challengers shall have the option of paying a pro-rata portion of the arbitrator’s fees and expenses. The union shall pay the balance of such fees and expenses.

c. Challengers may, at their expense, be represented by counsel or other representative of choice. Challengers need not appear at any hearing and shall be permitted to instead file written statements with the arbitrator no later than the beginning of the arbitration hearing. Post-hearing statements may be filed in accordance with the provisions of Section 8(g). If a hearing is not held, the arbitrator will set the dates by which all written submissions will be received and will decide the case based on the evidence and arguments submitted.

d. If a hearing is held, fourteen (14) days prior to the start of the hearing, challengers shall be provided with copies of all exhibits or a list of all such exhibits intended to be introduced at the arbitration by the union and a list of all witnesses the union intends to call, except for exhibits and witnesses the union may introduce for rebuttal. Where a list of exhibits has been provided, challengers shall have a right to receive copies of such exhibits by making a written request for them to the International Secretary-Treasurer. Additionally, copies of all exhibits shall be available for inspection and copying at the hearing.

e. A court reporter shall make a transcript of all proceedings before the arbitrator. This transcript shall be the only official record of the proceedings and may be purchased by the challengers. If challengers do not purchase a copy of the transcript, a copy shall be available for inspection by challengers at the International headquarters during normal business hours.

f. The arbitrator shall have control over all procedural matters affecting the arbitration in order to fulfill the dual needs of an informed and an expeditious arbitration. The arbitrator shall set forth in the decision the legal and arithmetic bases for the decision, giving full consideration to the legal requirements limiting the amount objectors may be charged.

g. If a hearing is held, the parties to the arbitration shall have the right to file a post-hearing statement within fifteen (15) days after both parties have completed submission of their cases at the hearing. Such statements may not introduce new evidence nor discuss evidence not introduced in the arbitration. The arbitrator shall issue a decision within forty-five (45) days after the final date for submission of post-hearing statements or within such other reasonable period as is consistent with the applicable AAA rules and the requirements of law.

h. The decision of the arbitrator shall be final and binding on all findings of fact supported by substantial evidence on the record considered as a

whole and on other findings legally permitted to be binding on all parties.

i. Upon receipt of the arbitrator’s award, any adjustment in favor of the challenger will be made from the escrow account.

9. Under Section 18.1 of the ATU Constitution and General Laws, each local union will be responsible for collecting and transmitting to the International Union each month from those who have made an objection the amount of the per capita tax certified as due under these procedures. In addition, each local will be responsible for developing a system covering local union fees that will meet the legal requirements relative to the objectors in the local. If the local union adopts the International procedures concerning fee objections on an integrated basis, no multiple notice (other than providing its independent auditor’s report to nonmember employees represented by the local union if the local union has not exercised the option of presuming that the International Union’s percentage of chargeable activities applies to the local union), objection, challenge or appeal procedures will be necessary. If, however, the local union adopts an independent system covering local union expenditures other than per capita tax, such arrangements must, by law, be included in the local’s procedures.

10. The provisions of this procedure shall be considered legally separable. Should any provision or portion hereof be held contrary to law by a court, administrative agency or arbitrator, the remaining provisions or portions thereof shall continue to be legally effective and binding. If, after consultation with each other, the International President or the local union business agent determines that modifications in this procedure are necessary to maintain compliance with applicable law, such modifications may be made in accordance with the Constitution and General Laws of the International Union or the bylaws of the local union, as applicable.

NOTES

1. ATU-represented public employees in Illinois, Minnesota, Montana, or Oregon who are not members of the union are automatically considered objectors and are not required to make a filing under the provisions of Sections 2 and 4 of this Statement of Law and Procedures. The collective bargaining statute applicable to New Jersey public employers (with the significant exceptions of New Jersey Transit and NJT-Mercer) has the same impact. Similarly, except where a more stringent union security arrangement was in place on January 1, 1970, and has been continued in accordance with the “grandfathering” provisions of state law, the Pennsylvania public employee bargaining statute only permits a fair share union security clause under which every nonmember is obligated to pay only a reduced fee based upon prior chargeable expenditures. Local unions representing such members shall forward the names of all such nonmember objectors to the International Secretary-Treasurer, including the objector’s current home address and employer.

2. In accordance with applicable state laws, the reduced per capita tax owed by nonmember public employee objectors in Minnesota and New Jersey (except those working for New Jersey Transit or NJT-Mercer) shall be computed utilizing either the percentage of chargeable expenditures as verified by the report of the independent auditor retained by the International or eighty-five (85%) percent, whichever is lesser.

3. State statutes covering public employees in Minnesota and New Jersey (again, other than those workers employed by New Jersey Transit or NJT-Mercer) require that any person wishing to challenge the fees file an action with the state public employment board (Minnesota) or with a three-member board appointed by the governor specifically to hear fair share challenges (New Jersey). Where these statutes are applicable, any local union procedure must provide that the binding expeditious review be through the applicable state process.

Amalgamated Transit Union Analysis of Objectors’ Expenses (Modified Cash Basis) - Year Ended June 30, 2012



Amalgamated Transit Union - Analysis of Objectors' Expenses (Modified Cash Basis) - Year Ended June 30, 2012

To the Chair and Members of the General Executive Board of the Amalgamated Transit Union

We have audited the accompanying Analysis of Objectors’ Expenses (modified cash basis) (the Analysis) of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) for the year ended June 30, 2012. The Analysis is the responsibility of the Union’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Analysis based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Analysis is free of material misstatement. An audit includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of ATU’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the Analysis, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by ATU’s management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the Analysis. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

As described in Note 1, the Analysis was prepared on a modified cash basis of accounting, which is a comprehensive basis of accounting other than generally accepted accounting principles.

The total net (U.S.) includable expenses presented in the Analysis agree to the expenses in the audited financial statements of the ATU for the year ended June 30, 2012, modified as discussed in Note 3. The allocations of expenses between chargeable and non-chargeable are based on the descriptions and the significant factors and assumptions described in Note 2. The accompanying Analysis was prepared for the purpose of determining the amount of the ATU’s expenses that are chargeable or non-chargeable to fee objectors. The accompanying Analysis is not intended to be a complete presentation of the ATU’s financial statements.

In our opinion, the Analysis referred to above presents fairly, in all material respects, the includable expenses of the Amalgamated Transit Union for the year ended June 30, 2012, and the allocation between chargeable and non-chargeable expenses, on the basis of accounting described in Note 1 and significant factors and assumptions described in Note 2.

This report is intended solely for the information and use of the Amalgamated Transit Union and its fee objectors and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than these specified parties.

Bethesda, MDDecember 7, 2012

NOTES TO ANALYSIS OF OBJECTORS’ EXPENSES YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2012

NOTE 1. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Method of Accounting - The Analysis is presented using a modified cash basis of accounting. Generally, expenses are recognized when paid rather than when the obligation is incurred. However, accruals of expenses are recorded for certain transactions with local unions, funeral benefits and other items.

Depreciation - Depreciation of property and equipment is charged to operations over the estimated useful lives of the assets using the straight-line method.

Benefit Payments - The Union’s Constitution and General Laws provide for the payment of a $1,000 funeral or dismemberment benefit on behalf of members and fee payers in good standing with one or more years of continuous membership or fee payment at the time of their death or dismemberment. An expense is recognized for the benefit for life members at the time they become life members. The costs associated with this benefit for other members and fee payers are accounted for upon disbursement of the benefit.

Estimates - The preparation of this Analysis requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting period. Actual results may differ from those estimates.

Subsequent Events Review - Subsequent events have been evaluated through December 7, 2012, which is the date the analysis was available to be issued. This review and evaluation revealed no new material event or transaction which would require an additional adjustment to or disclosure in the accompanying analysis.

NOTE 2. PURPOSE OF ANALYSIS OF OBJECTORS’ EXPENSES AND SIGNIFICANT FACTORS AND ASSUMPTIONS USED IN DETERMINING CHARGEABLE AND NON-CHARGEABLE EXPENSES

The purpose of this Analysis is for the determination of the percentage of fee objector dues (or their equivalent) expended by the Union for chargeable activities. Expenses for chargeable activities are those deemed “necessarily or reasonably incurred” to execute the representational duties of the Union. The percentage of Union expenses deemed not chargeable is used for determining advance dues (or their equivalent) reduction for fee objectors for the subsequent calendar year.

The procedures followed in the preparation of this Analysis include categorization of each classification of expenses by chargeable and non-chargeable activities. This is accomplished by analyzing each classification of expenses and identifying amounts which are either chargeable or non-chargeable.

The Union engaged professional assistance to determine criteria for identifying chargeable and non-chargeable expenses. The procedures and significant factors and assumptions used in this Analysis in determining these expenses are as follows:

A. All expenses are identified by fund and reconciled to the Union’s annual financial statements.

B. Canadian expenses within each fund are eliminated.

C. Certain interfund transfers are recorded to more accurately reflect the Union activity for which certain expenditures were made.

D. Expenses are analyzed to identify chargeable and non-chargeable amounts using the following criteria:

1. Chargeable expenses include:

• All expenses concerning the negotiation of agreements, practices and working conditions;

• All expenses concerning the administration of agreements, practices and working conditions, including grievance handling, all activities related to arbitration and discussion with employees in the bargaining unit or employer representatives regarding working conditions, benefits and contract rights;

• Convention expenses and other normal Union internal governance and management expenses;

• Social activities and Union business meeting expenses;

• Publication expenses to the extent coverage is related to chargeable activities;

• Expenses of litigation before the courts and administrative agencies related to contract administration, collective bargaining rights and internal governance;

• Expenses for legislative, executive branch and administrative agency representation on legislative and regulatory matters closely related to contract ratification or the implementation of contracts;

• All strike fund expenditures and other costs of group cohesion and economic action, e.g., demonstrations, general strike activity, informational picketing, etc.;

• All expenses for the education and training of members, officers and staff intended to prepare the participants to better perform chargeable activities;

• All funeral and dismemberment benefits; and

• An allocable amount of all net building expenses.

2. Non-chargeable expenses include all other expenses.

E. For those expenses which have both chargeable or non-chargeable aspects, allocations are made using certain ratios. Significant ratios used for these allocated expenses include ratios based on salary costs supported by time records and other ratios such as printed line ratios for allocation of certain publication costs.

NOTE 3. RECONCILIATION OF ANALYSIS TO AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The expenses included in this analysis are based upon the total expenses of $30,375,731 reported in the audited financial statements of the Amalgamated Transit Union modified for the following:

$3,902,340 in Canadian expenses has been excluded from this analysis.

$166,464 relating to various expenses which have been offset by corresponding revenue items have been excluded from this analysis.



Miren a los malhumorados ricos

...Creo que, mientras exista la abundancia, la pobreza es el mal. El Gobierno pertenece dondequiera que el mal necesite un adversario y hayan personas en peligro que no puedan ayudarse a sí mismas -. Discurso de Robert F. Kennedy en Atenas, Georgia, el 6 de mayo 1961

2012 fue un gran año para los miembros de ATU. Los sindicatos son las herramientas de poder económico de la clase trabajadora luchadora. De nada servimos si no estamos luchando todos los días para proporcionarle una vida mejor a los pobres y a la clase media.

Nuestro trabajo consiste en organizar el poder y este año muchos miembros de UTA han intensificado sus esfuerzos logrando que su sindicato sea más poderoso. Me quito el sombrero ante ustedes, el voluntariado de ATU. Nuestros esfuerzos este año para animar a nuestros pasajeros a votar fueron verdaderamente extraordinarios y marcarán el comienzo de la transformación de nuestro sindicato.

El presidente Obama, reelecto con la sangre, sudor y esperanzas de tanta gente trabajadora ya ha tomado una actitud enérgica en Michigan en favor de los trabajadores y sus organizaciones. Damos las gracias al Presidente Obama y esperamos que al verse liberado de tener que volver a participar en unas elecciones, continúe dirigiendo a los Estados Unidos con mano firme.

Pasé el día de las elecciones en una furgoneta en un proyecto de vivienda pública en Cleveland, OH, ayudando a llevar los votantes a las urnas. Una mujer saltó y nos dio las gracias por el transporte. Ella dijo: “Yo tengo coche, pero no tengo cómo pagar la gasolina”. El lugar de votación estaba a una milla y media de distancia. Según mis cálculos rápidos, esto significaba que no podía pagar los cincuenta centavos o menos que necesitaba para su voto. Esto me recordó que los Estados Unidos les ha dado la espalda a los crecientes ejércitos de pobres entre nosotros.

Ningún debate sobre la pobreza

En los Estados Unidos no hay debate sobre la pobreza, salvo aquel sostenido por la gente rica que lamenta tener que pagar su parte equitativa de los impuestos y se queja del aumento del número de personas que reciben cupones de alimentos y asistencia pública.

Si ustedes ven redes como CNBC o FOX podrá observar cómo los pobres son atacados casi a diario por los malhumorados millonarios. En una columna que leí hace poco en Crains Nueva York, un diario de clase dominante, como pocos, se habla de la competencia (feroz) para alquilar apartamentos en Manhattan con tarifas a partir de los $ 50.000 mensuales.

Las personas que pueden pagar estos alquileres deberían sentirse avergonzados por el hecho de que hoy más que nunca antes en la historia un mayor número de niños se acuesta a dormir todas las noches con hambre. No tienen menos vergüenza que María Antonieta cuando le dijeron que los pobres no tenían pan, y respondió, “que coman torta”.

Este es nuestro problema, por esta razón existen los sindicatos.

Muchos de nuestros miembros luchan todos los días solo para alimentar a sus hijos y en las esferas más amplias de los menos favorecidos de nuestra sociedad, donde las personas no tienen trabajo, ni sindicatos, es peor.

Les prometo a todos nuestros miembros que renovaré la misión de este sindicato en el 2013 para trabajar por ustedes. Pero también les pido que tengan en cuenta que todo lo que tenemos, nuestro salario, el cuidado de nuestra salud, la seguridad de nuestra jubilación, se derivan de la sociedad que nos rodea, y las comunidades que construimos. No podemos ocultarnos en la fortaleza de ATU. Debemos esforzarnos por lograr un contrato social mejor que favorezca a todas las personas y exija que quienes más se beneficien de nuestro trabajo compartan la riqueza.

El doctor King dijo: “No podemos caminar solos”. La totalidad de nuestras vidas están entrelazadas con la vida de aquellos con los que compartimos nuestro tiempo en la tierra.

¡Felicitaciones a todos!¡Juntos hemos ganado!

¡Qué elecciones! ¡Qué esfuerzo!

Felicitaciones a todos y nuestros agradecimientos al presidente internacional Hanley, y a nuestro Comité Ejecutivo por un liderazgo superior a todo lo que nuestro sindicato haya visto en los últimos años. Y felicitaciones a todos nuestros miembros que llevaron a cabo con éxito un programa que seguiremos desarrollando en los EE.UU. y en Canadá.

Lo que todos experimentamos bajo el liderazgo del presidente internacional, especialmente durante los últimos meses, fue una forma única y nueva de hacer las cosas que logra que se lleve completamente a cabo la labor. Los resultados fueron asombrosos.

Victoria

La victoria de EE.UU. es particularmente dulce porque reunió a la familia ATU de todos los rincones de América del Norte en una campaña durante una etapa en la cual el sindicato estaba sufriendo ataques sin precedentes. A pesar de las circunstancias, continuamos afirmando “¡Juntos podemos ganar!” y “¡Juntos ganaremos!”.

Hemos tenido victorias en uno tras otro de los estados campo de batalla de EE.UU. —Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada y los demás— a pesar de los trastornos causados por el huracán Sandy (trataremos el tema más adelante).

Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan y el 2% más rico de EE.UU. América no podían dar crédito a lo que hemos logrado juntos. Nunca entenderán que usted es la razón por la cual logramos tanto éxito. ¡Y que usted es la razón por la cual seguiremos logrando cosas1


¡EY, JUNTOS GANAMOS!

Ahora pueden tomar un pequeño respiro; pero no por mucho tiempo. El 2% no se detendrá nunca, así que estén atentos y listos. Con su ayuda el próximo año y los años siguientes, este programa va a funcionar.

Nuestros miembros necesitados

Ahora, podemos concentrarnos mucho más en ayudar a nuestros hermanos y hermanas devastados por el huracán Sandy. Esta tormenta destruyó una gran cantidad de bienes de nuestros miembros, arruinó casas y hasta cobró vidas. Ellos necesitan su amor, apoyo y oraciones, ahora más que nunca.Recibí muchas llamadas durante la última semana de la campaña, especialmente de nuestros hermanos y hermanas en Canadá y en el oeste preguntando qué podían hacer por las víctimas del huracán. Les pedimos que enviaran su amor, apoyo financiero y oraciones a los necesitados.Quizás nunca lo oportunas que fueron sus donaciones para algunos de nuestros miembros que se encontraban al borde de la desesperación. Por esta razón les estoy pidiendo a usted y a todos los miembros que no lo hayan hecho hasta ahora, que donen lo que puedan a nuestros miembros que casi lo han perdido todo a causa del huracán Sandy. Y, de parte de todos ellos, “¡Gracias!”.

Para concluir, les deseamos a todos unas felices y bendecidas fiestas, y les pedimos que por favor dediquen un momento a orar por todos los miembros de nuestra familia ATU afectados por esta terrible tragedia.

En solidaridad, Bob y Teresa Baker y Familia

Gracias - Ahora, ¡volvamos al trabajo!

Lo primero que quiero decir es: “¡Gracias!”

¡Gracias a todos los que participaron en nuestra iniciativa Get-Out-The Vote-(GOTV) (Salga a Votar) en los EE.UU. Gracias por ayudarnos a elegir más candidatos a cargos a favor del transporte y los sindicatos; entre ellos el presidente Obama y el vicepresidente Biden. Y gracias por ayudarnos a obtener la aprobación de tantas medidas en el sector del transporte sujetas a votación en los Estados Unidos.

Ustedes nos ayudaron a llevar acabo la campaña mas grande y efectiva de toda nuestra historia, la campaña, GOTV, por lo que no es de extrañar que los expertos de todo el espectro político le den crédito a ATU y la “estrategia básica” de la fuerza laboral como razón importante, si no la razón por la cual muchos candidatos fueron elegidos, y se aprobaron medidas en el sector del transporte.

El trabajo que ustedes desempeñaron durante la campaña electoral servirá como modelo para nuestras futuras campañas no sólo en Estados Unidos sino también en Canadá.

¿Cómo sucedió?

Ustedes se levantaron temprano en sus días libres a repartir folletos en las paradas de autobús y estaciones de tren, y convencieron a los usuarios del transporte y grupos simpatizantes para que se unieran a nosotros en la lucha.

Hicieron llamadas telefónicas y tocaron puertas. Lograron que las personas se inscribieran y las llevaron a las urnas. Y soportaron los insultos y los comentarios groseros de algunos que parecían no tener nada más que odio en sus corazones por el presidente y los progresistas en general.

No obstante, ustedes insistieron, votaron, y sorprendieron a América con resultados electorales que eran todo, menos predecibles.

Corrección de un error grande

Lo segundo que quiero decir es, que “¡es hora de volver al trabajo!”

Déjenme explicar.

Después de las históricas elecciones de los EE.UU. del 2008, la fuerza laboral pensó que podría simplemente sentarse y ver como el Congreso iba a aprobar la legislación para defender y ampliar los derechos de los trabajadores.

Ese fue un gran error.

Este año, no podemos permitirnos que la operación política más eficaz que hemos podido realizar se vea atrofiada por la falta de uso. Debemos regresar al trabajo.

Activistas miembros “reasignados”

Por lo tanto el presidente internacional Hanley ha reasignado a nuestros activistas miembros de Estados Unidos para presionar al Congreso incapaz para que no recorte el Seguro Social, Medicare o el transporte público como parte de un “gran acuerdo” para equilibrar el presupuesto.

Esta red crecerá y seguirá trabajando en el 2013, cuando el Congreso tomará decisiones no menos importantes para el futuro de nuestro sindicato y nuestro país. Como pueden ver esta coalición y red política se han convertido en una parte esencial y permanente de nuestra operación en EE.UU., y servirán como base para nuestra planificación en Canadá.

Si aún no lo han hecho, insto a los miembros de Estados Unidos a hacer aportes mensuales similares al Fondo de ATU-COPE que apoya nuestras actividades políticas. Y por favor, consideren unirse a sus compañeros en este esfuerzo voluntario nuevo y emocionante. Es una gran experiencia. Pueden encontrar más información en: www.atu.org

Feliz Año Nuevo.

Espero que hayan tenido unas felices fiestas y mi familia le desea lo mejor a sus familias para un nuevo año feliz y saludable.


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In MemoriamDeath Benefits Awarded September 1, 2012 - October 31, 2012



In MemoriamDeath Benefits Awarded September 1, 2012 - October 31, 2012

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OUR FIGHT CONTINUES.ATU to build on GOTV success in US November 6 elections

ATU members (above) were at the forefront of demonstrations against the midnight passage of right-to-work legislation in Michigan in early December. Encouraged by their stealth victory, right-to-work proponents plan to bring their anti-union

crusade to more states.

“If anyone needed further evidence that ATU and Labor needs to continue to be politically active beyond the election, this is it,” says International President Larry Hanley. “Political activism simply must become an integral part of the work of every local.”

The Union will continue to build on the success of its Get-Out-The-Vote campaign in the last election to promote pro-transit and pro-working family legislation on both the state and federal levels (read more inside).

Documents

In Transit - November/December 2012