Trimet management screws you out of your earned vacation when you move from part time to full time, they screw you out of your time when dealing with their road relief nonsense, how many times have you come in late from your shift and didn't fill out that stupid time slip they make you fill out, and now they are attempting to screw us out of our decent health care insurance so they can continue expanding this already bankrupt transit agency even though they have abandoned transit years ago in favor of property development and all the riches it brings the executive class
1400 AC Transit drivers joined this lawsuit and this is what they walked away with:
Breed pointed to a similar case against the Alameda-Contra Costa (California) Transit District settled in favor of the operators last year. The judge in that case awarded $7 million to operators, plus $10,000 to each main plaintiff and $1.65 million in attorney fees. In that case, well over 1,300 operators became party to the class action suit.
JOIN THE LAWSUIT DON'T ALLOW TRIMET MANAGEMENT TO SCARE YOU! I know Trimet keeps its drivers in a state of constant paranoia, but fight for your rights!
TOP TRIMET STORIES: TRIMET DRIVER CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT-Mult Cty Case No. 1301-00923.
Trimet drivers are some of the most apathetic people I have ever known. Many of them are anti union if you can believe that and many are oblivious to anything going on out of their particular life.
ReplyDeleteI have developed a theory on why activism is almost non existent there.
The workforce is primarily working class white people although recently Trimet has moved to more foreigners.
Working class white people have an 'work ethic' that has been bred into them and are very 'right wing' for lack of a better word.
Foreign workers of course are the least likely to buck authority due to their status.
Now in places like Oakland, Baltimore, Philadelphia, NYC and Boston the transit districts are primarily black.
In those districts they have very activist prone members the black culture having had to fight for every gain they have ever seen in the prominently white culture.
Hence the primarily black transit districts have the most involved membership.
As unions die the power elite gain wealth.
Every dollar they take from the working class ends up in the executive class/power elites pocket.
Haha, I can't wait til TriMet threatens service cuts. XD
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