Here's an update from OPAL:
Update to the community stakeholders regarding Trimet’s impending hire of a general manager:
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Monday, January 29, 2018
Victory?
TriMet tells me they are changing their policies and will give bus drivers who get sick during their route a ride "to the nearest TriMet facility" pic.twitter.com/WHJIo01y85
— Elliot Njus 🚦🏠 (@enjus) January 29, 2018
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Trimet operators band together to form a bus driver rescue team
#Trimet operators band together to rescue abandoned drivers who are left to fend for themselves by a company that doesn’t care about them unless they can be used by the Trimet neoliberal industrial complex pic.twitter.com/gki8E1ywES
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) January 27, 2018
Friday, January 26, 2018
Neil Mcfarlane "farewell tour"
Neil Mcfarlane’s “farewell tour”
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) January 26, 2018
Lol
Notice the times he’s going through the facilities, all when most people will be out in the field.
I don’t know why any union employee would respect this man, he’s reign has been nothing but a nightmare pic.twitter.com/4ghbAMMZiG
Outsourcing the General Manager
The more I think about the process that was used to select Kelsey the more it disturbs me.
If you watch that video of the transit recruitment woman you'll see that the entire process is controlled by the public transportation industrial complex.
All the people that make up KL2-Connect are ex public transportation officials themselves.
While Trimet officials boast of allowing input into the "type of characteristics" of the future general manager, the actual selections, interviews, and final decisions were all done in secret. Nobody even knows who actually applied for the job or what their backgrounds were.
We know nothing about any of the applicants other than there were so many black men, black woman, and white men applied.
That's an abomination is precisely the type management that should be opposed.
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Portland Activists cause Trimet board to delay general manager hiring
It's probably just a head fake.
Government always delays unpopular decisions in the hope that the citizens will move on to the next outrage and forget about the previous outrage.
It's a well calculated strategy and works most of the time.
Mainstream media, which was created and functions as a method to keep the citizens distracted and misinformed by the never ending barrage of "breaking news" works hand in hand with government on things like this.
The Trimet puppets actually have the nerve to put forth the argument that Kelsey was the most qualified IN THE WORLD was preposterous on its face.
The Trimet puppets actually have the nerve to put forth the argument that Kelsey was the most qualified IN THE WORLD was preposterous on its face.
In any event the activists have caused the puppets to DELAY Kelsey's coronation
Mcfarlane: smug as hell
Mcfarlane
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) January 26, 2018
Smug as hell
good riddance pic.twitter.com/zfpogoXsGx
Another heartless bus driver
The media loves these stories of ‘bad’ bus drivers. I always find it curious how these stories come at at the exact same time as Trimet management is under scrutiny
https://t.co/bnERpzOzDl
https://t.co/bnERpzOzDl
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Henry Beasley on the assault problem
Brothers and Sisters, (Part 2)
Going over my verifiable logging of the various assaults in the district and putting them together for everyone. The numbers may be off by a few here or there, but here is the list of logged events. These are the "notable events" in 2017.
Notable events:
Going over my verifiable logging of the various assaults in the district and putting them together for everyone. The numbers may be off by a few here or there, but here is the list of logged events. These are the "notable events" in 2017.
Notable events:
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Trimet sock puppets meeting tomorrow
Anyway lets take a look at the "official" business including this months pork barrel contracts
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Trimet horror show
It seemed like there was a light at the end of the tunnel when management and our union came to agreement on our latest contract. Then I noticed the light dimmed shortly after we approved the contract. Seems they left their high beams on just long enough to blind us, then added fog lights for special effect.
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Monday, January 8, 2018
"Diaper Boy" Patrick Pressuer reigning holy hell onto Trimet union employees
#trimet ‘Diaper Boy’ Preusser creating a hostile workplace because we all know this is the TriMet way pic.twitter.com/lgPKbWAxoD
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) January 8, 2018
Sunday, January 7, 2018
Damn good letter to the Oregonian
If TriMet's executive board would stop congratulating itself on how grand it is, board members might notice huge gaps in service. Having lived in Northwest, Southeast and now Southwest Portland, I can compare and report service in the close-in westside neighborhoods are abysmal.
The latest example of TriMet's failure to serve was for the annual First Run & Walk beginning midnight Dec. 31 into Jan. 1. TriMet can get you downtown but not home again. No bus service was available. Yes, the light rail ran late, but those of us living close-in have no access to light rail from neighborhoods such as Multnomah Village, John's Landing, and Lair Hill. If light rail can run until 3 a.m. on New Year's Day, why not the buses?
Other gaps in service are weekday and weekend evenings. If Portlanders want to bus downtown for a lecture, theater or other events and live close-in, getting home is always a problem after 10 p.m. Passengers will have waits of up to an hour. Again, this is a failure to serve. I have found TriMet's bus drivers, trip planners and customer service representatives to be very kind, patient and helpful. To TriMet executives, I say stifle your arrogance, take off your blinders and look honestly at your failure to serve this tri-county community.
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
The Trimet Deke N Blue
Operators define an "assault" as any action by another which threatens our safety. This could be a menacing verbal threat, someone purposefully brushing our shoulder on the way out the door while cursing us, a drink thrown at us, being spit or puked upon, having insults screamed in our face, or an actual physical assault. The district, for some strange reason, tends to solely define "assault" as physical aggression. This is misleading in that it furthers the notion that we're still expected to operate after our bodies have experienced a severe biological shock. The "fight or flight" response to a threat or an assault is scientifically proven to have a lasting effect on the victim. It can sometimes take weeks, months or even years to recover from it. The adrenaline rush, hormonal explosion and muscle tension can be thoroughly exhausting even though the crisis may only last a few minutes. Those who continue in service after such an incident are not fully capable of driving safely because the operator's mind constantly replays the incident. Instead, we need to concentrate on all we're trained to do in the seat. This is called "distracted," or even "impaired" driving, which in other contexts is illegal. Therefore, as far as many operators are concerned, the term "assault" covers a wide spectrum of offenses. It's certainly more inclusive of the open hands we're faced with on the job than the district's deceptively-slim definition of the term.
Read the entire essay HERE
Monday, January 1, 2018
Trimet December board meeting part 5
Randy (the hack) Stedmen presents the ATU757 contract to the sock puppets.
The concessions the company made to the union were offset by the ability to contract out light rail maintenance.