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Tax Information for 2016

Union Dues………..$936.00 Assessments……….$260.00 ——————————- Total…………….$1,196.00 Health Insurance Cost: All deductions for your health insurance in 2016 were pre-taxed. Therefore, they may not be deducted on your personal taxes. If you should need your health insurance deductions, they would appear on your last payroll stub of 2016. Fraternally, John Clancy Recording Secretary ATU Local 589

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New TV Ad: Winter Is Here

Winter is here and everyone is nervous what this means for the MBTA. Whatever Winter brings the members of the Boston Carmen’s Union are here to help get you where you need to go. Click on the video below to watch our new TV ad.

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Man jumps on Red Line tracks, demands T workers let him die, but they refuse

People wait to board a Red Line train at Porter Square MBTA station in February. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Gin Dumcius witnessed T workers struggling to keep a guy from trying to kill himself at Park Street around 7:45 p.m. Ten workers eventually joined the successful effort to keep him off the tracks until he could be transported to the hospital. Hats off to our members who were involved in helping this poor man.

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