The unfortunate truth about this issue is that our Local Union leadership has allowed the Board of Directors, their management henchmen, their respective private profiteers, and the popular press to control the messages our otherwise supportive friends and neighbors receive through widely varied news & information mediums. They have been largely successful at diverting the PEOPLES attention away from their mismanagement of the public transit system by inviting the media to foment vitriolic, and sometimes violent public outrage focused on irrational criticisms of front-line WORKERS, bus operators, who have human failings as we all do, but have not been afforded their Constitutional Rights to ‘privacy’ & ‘due process’. Instead, their Media Relations & Public Information henchmen obstruct the PEOPLES view of management malfeasance, by maliciously crucifying operators in the public arena and blaming the Union for budget shortfalls, increased fares, cuts in services, and their neglect to repair and replace worn out equipment and facilities. They do this while the anointed appointed Board of Directors and the District’s General Manager artfully dodge public scrutiny of the misappropriation of funds for ‘Capital Improvements’ that primarily benefit private profiteers.
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