CHICAGO – Thursday, February 17, 2010, labor and community groups united in a downtown demonstration for transit – for jobs, service and clean air. The demonstration was part of a series of national actions coordinated by Transit Riders for Public Transportation – a national civil rights and environmental justice campaign to shape federal transportation policy.

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International President Larry Hanley convened representatives of all of the major transit and labor groups working to address the mass transit crisis in the United States.

Reformer Elected to Head ATU Transit Union | Labor Notes.

CTA rehiring nearly half of those laid off last year :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State.

The Chicago IWW and LVEJO have been looking into what it would take to form a worker self-managed, community-controlled transit cooperative to run bus service along the 31st St. corridor.  We are exploring the possibility of a better service, owned by those who operate it, with union-scale wages and benefits, for less [...]

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Cosponsors – Little Village Environmental Justice Organization – Amalgamated Transit Union Local 241 – EcoJustice Collaborative – IWW GMB OC -  Nuclear Energy Information Service – Pilsen [...]

LVEJO represented at the United States Social Forum, June 21 – 26, 2010.

We were part of a 3 bus caravan including over a dozen organizations.

We brought 25 people.

LVEJO reps it in Detroit at the USSF

LVEJO helped present 5 workshops and a dinner.

We took part in a Transit Riders for Public Transportation workshop called Mass [...]