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2,000 pink slips for CTA workers? |
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"L" union accuses CTA of scare tactics By Ben Meyerson, Chicago Current December 29, 2009 The union representing Chicago Transit Authority "L" operators is accusing the agency of employing scare tactics as the two sides negotiate budget cutbacks. The CTA has issued issued federally mandated notices informing about 2,000 unionized employees that they will be laid off on Feb. 7, says Robert Kelly, president Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308. But the CTA says it plans to lay off only 1,067 as it cuts services to close a budget gap. Kelly says the extra notices are an intimidation tactic that is needlessly ruining the holidays for many CTA employees. “I’ve got 900 people out here ... worried they’re going to get laid off,” Kelly said. “It’s not right, you don’t do things like that — you don’t play with people’s lives.” The agency declined to comment on the discrepancy between the number of notices and its earlier statements about the number of planned layoffs.
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Airport screeners fight for their rights |
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More than 40,000 airport screeners are blocked from having a union at work by rules established by former President Bush who claimed unionized TSOs (Transportation Security Officers) would threaten homeland security. But the workers are fighting back and hope that a new administration means a new chance at bargaining collectively for a voice on the job. |
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OBAMA SUMMIT PRODUCES IDEAS FOR JOB CREATION |
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By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI)--Democratic President Barack Obama’s Dec. 3 White House summit meeting on jobs produced a raft of ideas from unions and worker allies on job creation -- but nothing that could put the 15 million jobless to work tomorrow. And that’s what Obama wanted: Ideas to restart the economy and keep it going for workers. He plans to distill them and take them on the road, starting with a Dec. 4 speech in Allentown, Pa. -- the day the November jobless figures come out. Obama “is looking forward to having a broad discussion with, and getting ideas from, a whole host of people in the private sector -- people that run fairly large companies, like FedEx, Google; small business owners that...do most of our hiring, financial experts, others that have ideas,” spokesman Robert Gibbs said. “I am not interested in taking a wait and see approach,” the president said in concluding remarks.
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