2012 Year In Review

Dear Members, Happy New Year! As this year comes to a close the Executive Board of the Boston Carmen’s Union feels nothing but pride and joy for how we as a union came together during 2012. Together we mobilized in an unprecedented campaign to re-elect President Barack Obama and elect pro-union, pro-worker candidates, like Sen. Elizabeth …

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The Nation Magazine Calls ATU Most Valuable National Union

Here is the excerpt from The Nation magazine concerning the ATU: Most Valuable National Union: Amalgamated Transit Union With their Occupy Transit T-shirts and aggressively progressive approach to fighting for local and regional services, the 190,000 members of ATU are a force to be reckoned with in debates about economic and social justice. They gave critical …

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589 Helps Bring Toys to Needy Children

Thank you to all local 589 members who contributed toys to the 12th Annual “Fill-A-Bus” campaign. Thanks to you, around 1,000 toys, mostly from MBTA employees, were donated to children at the Action for Boston Community Development,  Mass Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Yawkey Boys & Girls Club of Boston, and The …

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