Banking on kindness at the MBTA

Boston Globe | By Brian McGrory | August 01, 2012 If bad news were money, we’d all be millionaires these days. The presidential candidates are basically trying to scratch each other’s eyes out. Nothing will change after the Colorado massacre. The world economy is dangling by a thread. Republicans and Democrats can’t agree on the …

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MBTA ridership reaches new heights

BOSTON (AP) — There were more than 400 million individual rides on the MBTA during the last fiscal year for the first time in transit agency history.   The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority announced Tuesday that average weekday ridership for the fiscal year that ended June 30 grew by 5.7 percent over the previous year. …

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ATU Local 241 in Chicago meets with President Lee in Boston

Members of ATU Local 241 from Chicago and President John Lee met this past weekend to dicuss issues facing both organizations, such as contract negotiations / arbitration, grievances, service cuts – layoffs, training programs and many other issues.  When the meeting was over, all agreed that although we are from different cities, our issues and goals are …

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