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Victory To BART/AC Transit Workers And Jail BART Bosses And Managers For Murder In Tra
BART managers and bosses have murdered two of their scabs and should be arrested and jailed. Oakland port workers are joining the fight and all transit workers and others must take action to bust these union busters
Victory To BART And AC Transit Workers And Jail BART Bosses And Managers For Murder of Scabs In Track Deaths
Unite All Working People & Labor To Bust The Union Busters
Stop The Attack On Transit/Public Workers And Our Communities
The BART managers and their hired $400,000 professional union buster Thomas P. Hock from Veolia Transportation company have provoked the second strike by BART workers from ATU 1555, SEIU 1021 and AFSCME 3993.
BART managers and executives have now murdered two of their scabs this weekend by their criminal negligence in running the trains. Workers and the people need to demand that these bosses and executives be criminal prosecuted and jailed for murder for the deaths of these workers. Also this BART board of directors have bloody hands and they are criminally negligent or allowing the running of trains with scabs despite being warned by workers that this was a deadly danger.
The AC ATU 192 workers are also faced with major concession demands by their managers and Board of Directors supported by the Bay Area Business Council which BART bosses are part of. This is also the program of the MTA
which is controlled by bay area politicians. They are demanding that the workers pay for the cost of transit instead of the banks and high tech corporations that are booming. They are also funding a statewide anti-labor pension bill to attack all public workers benefits.
This attack on transit workers and their unions is not just about these workers but connected to the attack on all public workers and the communities who face increased fares and reduction of services while the number of billionaires grow. Tens of thousands of other workers from UC AFSCME, CWA-UPTE and UAW and CCSF college AFT 2121 teachers and students face similar attacks.
For transit workers this is not just about a fight for basic union rights but whether the plan to bust these unions through attacks on wages benefits but worker seniority and health and safety rights. They want to eliminate the 8 hour day and take away seniority rights on the job. This is a threat to all workers who will face similar attacks if BART bosses are successful. Concession regressive bargaining and so called "interest bargaining" is no solution to this fight and supports the idea of "sharing the pain".
This struggle is also not just about BART workers but a fight to defend the AC ATU 192 workers who are faced with many of the same concession demands. These managers and their bosses want workers to pay for new buses and capital while there is no transit tax on the corporations who benefit from BART and AC transit.
The BART managers are planning to spend $21 million to provide free busses, run a corporate anti-worker campaign and to defeat the BART.
We need to make the developers, corporations and billionaires pay for free quality safe mass transit systems.
The cost shifting that has been going on by the corporations
to force workers to pay more healthcare and pension costs is instituting austerity and real cuts on living conditions for all working people while the billionaires get wealthier.
The Democratic party labor supported governor Brown is helping the bosses and managers at BART and AC Transit by imposing 60 day cooling off periods and seeking to attack the pension of transit and all public workers while giving tax subsidies to the corporations who run this state and country. Workers need their own independent political party that will stand up for working people, youth, immigrants and the poor. We need a living wage, healthcare and education for all working people including the massive number of unemployed workers in the bay area. This will unite all working people.
The only way to win to really win this fight is to rally in action all transit workers who face similar attacks along with all workers and the communities that are being attacked by these same forces. The vote of the Oakland port truckers to shutdown the Port of Oakland on Monday is an important step of solidarity action.
AC ATU 192 workers who are without a contract must join the strike and direct solidarity action by all other transit unions in Northern California. The ILWU, IBT Teamsters which also represents Veolia workers in the bay area and other transport workers must join together now to defeat this assault.
Join The Picket Lines, Get Your Union To Support The Strike and build a mass strike movement.
We need to shut the Bay Area Down and Beat Back This Union Busting Attack
United Public Workers For Action
http://www.upwa.info
10/19/13
Unite All Working People & Labor To Bust The Union Busters
Stop The Attack On Transit/Public Workers And Our Communities
The BART managers and their hired $400,000 professional union buster Thomas P. Hock from Veolia Transportation company have provoked the second strike by BART workers from ATU 1555, SEIU 1021 and AFSCME 3993.
BART managers and executives have now murdered two of their scabs this weekend by their criminal negligence in running the trains. Workers and the people need to demand that these bosses and executives be criminal prosecuted and jailed for murder for the deaths of these workers. Also this BART board of directors have bloody hands and they are criminally negligent or allowing the running of trains with scabs despite being warned by workers that this was a deadly danger.
The AC ATU 192 workers are also faced with major concession demands by their managers and Board of Directors supported by the Bay Area Business Council which BART bosses are part of. This is also the program of the MTA
which is controlled by bay area politicians. They are demanding that the workers pay for the cost of transit instead of the banks and high tech corporations that are booming. They are also funding a statewide anti-labor pension bill to attack all public workers benefits.
This attack on transit workers and their unions is not just about these workers but connected to the attack on all public workers and the communities who face increased fares and reduction of services while the number of billionaires grow. Tens of thousands of other workers from UC AFSCME, CWA-UPTE and UAW and CCSF college AFT 2121 teachers and students face similar attacks.
For transit workers this is not just about a fight for basic union rights but whether the plan to bust these unions through attacks on wages benefits but worker seniority and health and safety rights. They want to eliminate the 8 hour day and take away seniority rights on the job. This is a threat to all workers who will face similar attacks if BART bosses are successful. Concession regressive bargaining and so called "interest bargaining" is no solution to this fight and supports the idea of "sharing the pain".
This struggle is also not just about BART workers but a fight to defend the AC ATU 192 workers who are faced with many of the same concession demands. These managers and their bosses want workers to pay for new buses and capital while there is no transit tax on the corporations who benefit from BART and AC transit.
The BART managers are planning to spend $21 million to provide free busses, run a corporate anti-worker campaign and to defeat the BART.
We need to make the developers, corporations and billionaires pay for free quality safe mass transit systems.
The cost shifting that has been going on by the corporations
to force workers to pay more healthcare and pension costs is instituting austerity and real cuts on living conditions for all working people while the billionaires get wealthier.
The Democratic party labor supported governor Brown is helping the bosses and managers at BART and AC Transit by imposing 60 day cooling off periods and seeking to attack the pension of transit and all public workers while giving tax subsidies to the corporations who run this state and country. Workers need their own independent political party that will stand up for working people, youth, immigrants and the poor. We need a living wage, healthcare and education for all working people including the massive number of unemployed workers in the bay area. This will unite all working people.
The only way to win to really win this fight is to rally in action all transit workers who face similar attacks along with all workers and the communities that are being attacked by these same forces. The vote of the Oakland port truckers to shutdown the Port of Oakland on Monday is an important step of solidarity action.
AC ATU 192 workers who are without a contract must join the strike and direct solidarity action by all other transit unions in Northern California. The ILWU, IBT Teamsters which also represents Veolia workers in the bay area and other transport workers must join together now to defeat this assault.
Join The Picket Lines, Get Your Union To Support The Strike and build a mass strike movement.
We need to shut the Bay Area Down and Beat Back This Union Busting Attack
United Public Workers For Action
http://www.upwa.info
10/19/13
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http://www.upwa.info
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What a bunch of gibberish. As a frustrated commuter who is looking for the other side of the coin, I found that there just hasn't been any good arguments for the union side. We keep hearing that bart workers need to be earning a living wage but I (and it seems like the reast of the bay area) just can't support the unions when station agents and train operators are earning what is supposedly an average wage of 60K+ AND all that is needed is a high school education.
First, we all need at least $60 per hour or $120,000 a year to buy a house if we want a family. Without a house, you cannot afford a family. So there is no wage that the BART workers make that is enough to raise a family, yet most have children, which means they cannot make ends meet, much less pay $92 per month and up for medical, plus pay for pension and whatever else the $300,000 a year BART manager and the $399,000 union-busting negotiator want workers to pay. This manager and union-buster are being paid by the TAXPAYERS, under the supervision of an ELECTED BART board of directors who are mostly DEMOCRATS. Yes, DEMOCRATS ARE UNION BUSTERS THE SAME AS REPUBLICANS. This fact, and the fact that the union-buster and the manager are paid by the taxpayers are not stated loudly and often on KPFA, 94.1 FM, as they should be.
Second, here is a picture and article from the capitalist press, Matier & Ross, 10/21/13 at
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Insider-BART-training-for-strike-when-2-killed-4912280.php
My question when I heard about this murder of 2 BART workers is WHY WAS ANYONE WORKING and WHY WAS THE TRAIN RUNNING? Matier & Ross says it was a training exercise for the scabs! That is more news than we get from KPFA, 94.1 FM.
I tuned to KPFA at 8:05 a.m. today expecting to hear Workweek Radio with labor expert, Steve Zeltzer, and we again had someone who did not report anything on the BART strike as that is not her expertise. So, I switched to my favorite music station, the classical music that is apparently banned from KPFA, a very stupid act as lots of radicals, including myself, listen to classical music, and it is certainly a good fundraiser. I hear they came up short in the last screaming match called a fundraiser. They should promote classical music CDs; it is good for the nerves and the bank account.
But I digressed a little. For the past 2 Friday night newscasts at 6 p.m. on KPFA, they interviewed passengers at the swanky Lafayette BART station! People in Lafayette are the managers, lawyers and similar $100,000 a year and up class so we could hear how "inconvenienced" they all were! The BART workers are the most inconvenienced as they do not receive a paycheck when they are on strike. If the strike continues beyond this week, we should have a fundraiser at a large hall, like the longshore hall at Fisherman's Wharf. All of the Bay Area Central Labor Councils should also be contributing to a strike fund DAILY. KPFA is supposed to be the voice of the workingclass, the 80% of us who sell our labor for less than $80,000 a year. They should be interviewing the workingclass riders and the BART workers. Interviews at the 16th and 24th St Stations in San Francisco, Daly City station, and all of the Oakland BART stations would give us the workingclass rider point of view. It is, of course, not the rider point of view that is crucial; it is a resounding BART worker victory with a no concessions labor contract that will move this society forward.
My favorite program by far on KPFA is Workweek Radio. I actually learn things I would not know otherwise. The primary contradiction is between labor and capital and this BART strike is crucial to the future of labor, and therefore, of our society.
Again, I ask, where is Workweek Radio on KPFA?
Second, here is a picture and article from the capitalist press, Matier & Ross, 10/21/13 at
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Insider-BART-training-for-strike-when-2-killed-4912280.php
My question when I heard about this murder of 2 BART workers is WHY WAS ANYONE WORKING and WHY WAS THE TRAIN RUNNING? Matier & Ross says it was a training exercise for the scabs! That is more news than we get from KPFA, 94.1 FM.
I tuned to KPFA at 8:05 a.m. today expecting to hear Workweek Radio with labor expert, Steve Zeltzer, and we again had someone who did not report anything on the BART strike as that is not her expertise. So, I switched to my favorite music station, the classical music that is apparently banned from KPFA, a very stupid act as lots of radicals, including myself, listen to classical music, and it is certainly a good fundraiser. I hear they came up short in the last screaming match called a fundraiser. They should promote classical music CDs; it is good for the nerves and the bank account.
But I digressed a little. For the past 2 Friday night newscasts at 6 p.m. on KPFA, they interviewed passengers at the swanky Lafayette BART station! People in Lafayette are the managers, lawyers and similar $100,000 a year and up class so we could hear how "inconvenienced" they all were! The BART workers are the most inconvenienced as they do not receive a paycheck when they are on strike. If the strike continues beyond this week, we should have a fundraiser at a large hall, like the longshore hall at Fisherman's Wharf. All of the Bay Area Central Labor Councils should also be contributing to a strike fund DAILY. KPFA is supposed to be the voice of the workingclass, the 80% of us who sell our labor for less than $80,000 a year. They should be interviewing the workingclass riders and the BART workers. Interviews at the 16th and 24th St Stations in San Francisco, Daly City station, and all of the Oakland BART stations would give us the workingclass rider point of view. It is, of course, not the rider point of view that is crucial; it is a resounding BART worker victory with a no concessions labor contract that will move this society forward.
My favorite program by far on KPFA is Workweek Radio. I actually learn things I would not know otherwise. The primary contradiction is between labor and capital and this BART strike is crucial to the future of labor, and therefore, of our society.
Again, I ask, where is Workweek Radio on KPFA?
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