Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Doomsday 2010 – Day 3
A Green Plan for Paratransit
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Click here for the Story.
MLK Day March for Jobs and Public Services
Friday, January 15th, 2010Download the MLK Rally Flyer
Join us in celebrating Dr. King’s legacy of struggling for social justice and defending workers’ needs.
CTA management is threatening to lay off over 1,000 bus drivers and maintenance workers on Feb 7th. This means fewer and more crowded buses and trains.
Chicago Public Schools plan to close another 25 to 30 neighborhood [...]
Labor Beat: Let’s Fix Chicago’s Public Transit!
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010CLICK HERE TO SEE A LABOR BEAT VIDEO ON THE CTA CUTS!
Chicago public transit riders and workers have become fed up with the perennial funding crises that always translate into service cuts and attacks on working conditions and jobs. There needs to be a positive social solution with adequate funding, and transit riders and workers [...]
FACT SHEET: How “Invent the Future” public input helped shape the GO TO 2040 draft preferred Regional Scenario
Friday, December 11th, 2009Residents across the seven-county region helped to “Invent the Future” from May to September 2009 via public outreach by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), which is developing GO TO 2040, the official comprehensive plan to guide development and infrastructure.
Click here to read a CMAP news release summarizing this phase of public input. [...]
Labor Beat: Stop CTA Service Cuts
Friday, December 11th, 2009LVEJO endorsed and took part in this picket action at CTA this week.
Also, special thanks to Roger Smidl for his testimony to the CTA Board regarding the need to reverse past cuts and restore the 31st Street Bus Route.
Stop CTA Service Cuts
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A rally against mass transit service cuts in [...]
