These are the top Trimet stories for 2016
The class action
THE CLASS ACTIONhas finally ended and supposedly we are all about to get paid a nice piece of change, $400-$800 per operator. It only took 4 years
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RANDY STEDMEN
Randy Stedman’s Dirty tricks continue. This year he stopped allowing the union to MEET WITH NEW HIRES ON COMPANY TIME and also pulled the TRIMET REPRESENTATIVE out of the retirees meeting. Stedmen also insisted that Trimet drives NOT GET SUFFICIENT BREAK TIME as part of his never ending war on Trimet transit workers. In one of the great moments in Trimet history Randy received the SCROOGE OF THE YEAR award from Jobs with Justice! We know Mcfarlane’s board of sock puppets LOVE RANDY as they love KING NEIL HIMSELF
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JAY FRYE
JAY was fired after 22 years. TRIMET relishes its power to mess with people’s heads. They probably realized that Jay would have beaten their sorry ass in arbitration then they would have to give him all his back pay and hire him back. Rather than face that humiliation they let him go back to bus driving. It was the biggest blog post of the year in terms of views
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BEN SINGH
Popular driver BEN SINGH died unexpectedly shocking those of us who knew him.
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We lost BILL WILMER this year.
He was a tireless advocate for union employees.
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He was a tireless advocate for union employees.
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The Department of Labor ordered a NEW
ELECTION for ATU757 president and vice president. That was basically BRUCE
HANSENS LAST STAND and he ended up losing for the second time. The election
ended with the SAME
RESULTS however Chris Day almost unseated ATU757 icon Jonathan Hunt.
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Trimet blogger Erik Halstead took his complaint DIRECTLY
TO THE TRIMET BOARD OF DIRECTORS and had one of the best appearances I’ve
ever seen at those meetings
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Operators FREDERICK
CASEY AND MIKE MCURRY spearheaded a drive to get assaults on operators
turned into felonies rather than misdemeanors
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LANE
JENSEN made a brief reappearance
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There were TWO
TRIMETGEDDONS this year, one where riders were stranded for 4 hours in a
stuck light rail vehicle
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Working for Trimet continues to be a HAZARDOUS
OCCUPATION with driver assaults still breaking records.
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Tigard residents voted YES on Trimet light rail, by a bare
majority of 150 votes. The yes side was BANK
ROLLED by the people who stand to make some windfall profits from the
project
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Another ATU757 icon decided to call it quits and went back
to just being a plain old bus driver, JEFF
ACKERSON. We had a falling out over the last election but Jeff was really a
major character in keeping Trimet honest for all the years he was MERLO union
rep. He was a fantastic rep.
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OPAL activists brought FEAR
AND LOATHING to the gated community where Trimet executives hide away from
their employees and the public
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Trimet attempted a back door MONEY
GRAB using all of their contacts with Democrats to shove a tax increase
down everyone’s throat. It was the republicans that saved the rest of us from
that say what you will about Republicans.
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One of my pals STEVE
COHEN wrapped up his career at Trimet with a musical number.
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Trimet also conducted a employee survey that 80%
OF UNION EMPLOYEES DIDN'T FILL OUT in one of the most EMBARASSING
MOMENTS for Trimet executives
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