Category: Announcement

URGENT: Local 589 Enrollment in GIC for Active and Retired Employees

We cannot stress enough the importance of enrolling in the GIC before Friday, September 27, 2013. To wait is to risk the potential of not having any health care for you or your family. Please make time to attend one of the many healthcare fairs that the MBTA is running. Please note that the two biggest fairs …

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Attention Members: Information about Working Contract and Pension Proposal

To All Local 589 members The current working contract expires June 30, 2014. The Union and the Authority will meet and exchange proposals for the next working agreement (contract). Any member wishing to submit a contract proposal for the working agreement must put it in writing and submit it (by mail or FAX) to the …

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Standing Room Crowd For Arbitration Award Meeting

Photo of the over 650 members that packed Florian Hall to review the Arbitrator's Award and ask questions.

It was standing room only as over 650 members packed Florian Hall on Sunday morning to review the Arbitrator’s Award and ask questions. Local 589’s executive board and chief negotiator, Tom Roth, presented the details of the Arbitrator’s Award for the Boston Carmen’s Union contract. The contract award covers 4-years (June 2010 to June 2014) …

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