FMCB Meeting Change

ATTENTION MEMBERS: Monday’s (3/9) MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board (FMCB) meeting will not include the request for proposal (RFP) on our express bus routes. It’s been postponed to March 23. Please mark your calendars.

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Evers Appointed to MA AFL-CIO Executive Council

This morning, our own Local 589 President James Evers and new Greater Boston Labor Council (GBLC) Executive Secretary-Treasurer Darlene Lombos were sworn in as vice presidents of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO’s Executive Council. Please join us in congratulating them. #Solidarity #FiredUp

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Transportation Bond Bill

Today, Local 589 President James Evers along with other members of the executive board attended today’s hearing on the transportation bond bill (H 4397). In submitted testimony, Evers said the Boston Carmen’s Union wholeheartedly supports this bill to authorize bonds to help rehabilitate and expand mass transit. However, he cautioned the committee to steer clear …

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