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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
ARE UNIONS AN OBSTACLE TO WORKERS GOALS?
In today's world, a workers' uprising that goes beyond trade unions may
become a cause for a grass-roots social-revolutionary movement based on
self-organization. For those trying to bury the working class it is
worth recalling some recent events: an armed uprising of miners in
Asturias (Spain), a workers' uprising in South Africa (even a workers'
council – a central strike committee – was set up, bringing together the
strike committees of various mines). But all of these revolts were
killed by trade unions. The same thing happened to the rather militant
strikes in Greece and France in the past decade. Strikes in South Korea
more than once or twice grew into factory seizures and armed conflicts
with the police, but each time the movement was stopped by union
officials who were looking for compromise and usurped the negotiations
with the authorities and the owners.
the need to rise against trade unions | libcom.org
Summary: Union leaders are increasingly distant from the everyday workers they claim to represent, with faster-growing pay and an entrenched ruling class, data show. Nepotism is in full force, union members complain, and the closest some second- or third-generation officials have been to a day on a job site is a class on labor relations at Harvard. With a small handful of persons controlling a multitude of related trusts, sometimes for decades, it should be no surprise the Department of Labor has found at least 89 cases where union members had funds embezzled by their own officials in the first half of 2013.
The Unions’ Own “1%”: Extravagant Pay, Nepotism, Government Indifference | Union Watch
the need to rise against trade unions | libcom.org
Summary: Union leaders are increasingly distant from the everyday workers they claim to represent, with faster-growing pay and an entrenched ruling class, data show. Nepotism is in full force, union members complain, and the closest some second- or third-generation officials have been to a day on a job site is a class on labor relations at Harvard. With a small handful of persons controlling a multitude of related trusts, sometimes for decades, it should be no surprise the Department of Labor has found at least 89 cases where union members had funds embezzled by their own officials in the first half of 2013.
The Unions’ Own “1%”: Extravagant Pay, Nepotism, Government Indifference | Union Watch
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TRIMET BUCKED NATIONAL TREND ON TRANSIT RIDERSHIP
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| Light rail dragged down ridership |
The Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon's (TriMet) annual ridership declined 3 percent in fiscal-year 2013, which ended June 30.
The agency provided about 99 million rides, about 3 million less than in FY2012. WES Commuter Rail posted a 5.5 percent ridership increase and bus ridership remained constant, but MAX light-rail service trips declined 7.4 percent year over year, TriMet officials said in a press release.
Record 10.5 Billion Trips Taken On U.S. Public Transportation In 2012
“The MBTA is a cesspool of discrimination and retaliation"
MBTA fires operators for even possessing a cell phone. I never did understand how that was constitutional.
But attorney Philip Gordon, who is representing 13 T workers in a complaint before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, doubted that the T is cleaning up its problems. “It’s an environment that allows rampant discrimination to occur and flourish,” Gordon said. -
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But attorney Philip Gordon, who is representing 13 T workers in a complaint before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, doubted that the T is cleaning up its problems. “It’s an environment that allows rampant discrimination to occur and flourish,” Gordon said. -
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ENDLESS PROPAGANDA INFECTS THE MIND
The light rail agenda of the Portland Oligarchs is on the ropes trying to keep itself alive. The public is treated daily to various 'updates' on the light rail agenda and how wonderful it is. Day after day this propaganda is distributed it slowly affects the mind and conditions the public to think the way the masters desire. Below we see the masterful application of this propaganda, and its almost daily that the citizenry is subjected to it
Monday, August 19, 2013
AC TRANSIT STRIKE VIDEO
▶ Don't Piss On Me & Tell Me It's Raining! ATU192 AC Transit Workers Speak Out On Proposed Contract - YouTube
And the union members ARE NOT happy with their union!
And the union members ARE NOT happy with their union!
WHY ARE THESE RECORDS 'EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE'
| 8/14/2013 | Jeffrey Kirsch | KPTV |
Requested records exempt from disclosure
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Requesting
video, if any, of the following incident:
PER GRESHAM POLICE PIO Juveniles shooting at people on max platform with
bb guns or pellet guns; they then got on train; 3-4 kids involved
possibly as young as 4 ? ages unconfirmed; no injuries
Date and Time: 08/14/2013 20:01:52
Location: 1400 BLOCK OF NW CIVIC DR, GRESHAM, OR
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| 8/13/2013 | Adele Steiger | KOIN |
Requested records exempt from disclosure
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We
would like the video, if any, from the MAX train that showed this
stabbing please (On August 12, 2013 at approximately 11:05 pm, Central
Precinct officers responded to a call of a fight on the Max train at the
Zoo Station. Central Precinct officers did find a victim in the area
that was stabbed).
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IT WON'T MAKE THE NEWS
PEPPER SPRAY ATTACK ON MAX http://t.co/Jepj4tb6dw
— TriMet Scanner (@trimetscanner) August 19, 2013
ULTIMATE TRANSIT GEEK DARIUS McCOLLEM PLANNED TO STEAL JAIL BUS
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| Darius McCollem |
McCollum observed that corrections officer left their keys in the ignition when going on a bathroom breaks and figured that someone could easily slip behind the wheel. His intent in alerting the commissioner is allegedly to help identify the security lapse.
TODAYS STUPID TRIMET 'PRESS' RELEASE
As if getting done a whole 11 hours early on a stupid construction project actually qualifies as 'news'.
TriMet, Milwaukie celebrate McLoughlin's early reopening
TriMet, Milwaukie celebrate McLoughlin's early reopening
BART MANAGERS GET RICH WHILE ATTACKING THE UNION
And just like Trimet:
Union leaders, defending requests for double-digit percentage pay increases, fire back that managers have been lining their own pockets generously while asking workers to pay more toward health care and pension benefits.
"Who knows what they can come up with?" said Antonette Bryant, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, which represents train operators and station agents. "We find out when it comes out after the fact what kind of deals they make for themselves, not before."
Critics inside and outside the unions say BART's managers find other ways to pad their wallets, such as sometimes vesting earlier than union workers do in the system's health care plan so they can leave early with lifetime benefits. Or pulling down large amounts of severance pay, like the $1 million that former BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger walked away with when she was fired in 2011.
BART managers, like unions, among best compensated - SFGate
Union leaders, defending requests for double-digit percentage pay increases, fire back that managers have been lining their own pockets generously while asking workers to pay more toward health care and pension benefits.
"Who knows what they can come up with?" said Antonette Bryant, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, which represents train operators and station agents. "We find out when it comes out after the fact what kind of deals they make for themselves, not before."
Critics inside and outside the unions say BART's managers find other ways to pad their wallets, such as sometimes vesting earlier than union workers do in the system's health care plan so they can leave early with lifetime benefits. Or pulling down large amounts of severance pay, like the $1 million that former BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger walked away with when she was fired in 2011.
BART managers, like unions, among best compensated - SFGate
Sunday, August 18, 2013
TRIMET PUBLIC RECORDS 'AUDIT' (lol)
Basically Trimet handed over $70k of tax payer funds to this law office to give them a bullshit report which they could distribute as phony propaganda
THE PUBLIC RECORDS AUDIT BY TRIMET from al m on Vimeo.
THE PUBLIC RECORDS AUDIT BY TRIMET from al m on Vimeo.
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