Sunday, May 17, 2020

From the TriMet Drivers side

Early in your tenure as General Manager, a co-worker and brother of mine asked you about Thomas Dunn. You had no idea who he was. “I’m from Candada, you know,” was his reply. I was stunned to hear this. Eh? This story about your lack of knowledge of the transit world was truly disheartening to us all. When one of us is murdered, we ALL suffer the grief, no matter where it happens. You think like a CEO, rather than the leader of 2,000+ blue collar workers one paycheck from Tent City. This is exactly why ATU 757 was heartily against you being hired as our GM. You have no idea what it’s like to do the nuts-and-bolts jobs of transit.

https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2020/05/dear-general-manger-listen-to-us.html

1 comment:

  1. I’m a huge fan of the “Deke”. My only issue with him is on the issue of fares. I’ve been a disciple of the fare free movement for many years now and continue to support it. If there was ever a time too see the value of removing fares from public transportation it is now. Making transit a police matter is unconscionable and needs to be changed. Poor people shouldn’t have to suffer the boot of the police state over a transit fare

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