Above Photo: A picket line at the Tramlink Depot in Croydon, June 28, 2022. WSWS. Trams drivers in Croydon took strike action Tuesday and will do so again on Wednesday. They run a network of 39 stops across 28 kilometres of track in south London. Members of the Aslef union, the 150 workers rejected a 3 percent pay offer from operator First Group and voted almost unanimously to strike, on a turnout of 86 percent. With inflation at 11.7 percent RPI, the company’s offer amounts to a deep pay cut. Services were severely disrupted, affecting the Wimbledon tennis tournament, with no […]
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Above Photo: Magnolia State Live. School Bus Drivers In The Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi Went On Strike Friday Morning And Won. Bus drivers in the Jefferson Davis County went on strike Friday morning after the school board approved paying $25 an hour to emergency drivers as an incentive to help with driver shortage. The item was approved 4-1 at a recent board meeting. “I have zero problem with having anyone that is willing to drive our busses,” said District 2 School Board Member Bobby Wilson. “I do have a problem with $25 an hour. I would like to know why we […]
Above Photo: A Person Attends A Protest By New York Taxi Drivers About Debt Relief In New York On Oct. 20, 2021. Carlo Allegri / Reuters File. After a two-week hunger strike and two months of sit-ins, dozens of taxi drivers in New York City hosted a long-awaited celebration outside City Hall on November 10. On November 3, New York City reached an agreement with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA), the union fighting to relieve drivers of thousands of dollars in debt they owe for medallions, the physical permits to operate taxis. According to the NYTWA, the average debt […]
Above Photo: A Savannah Chatham County Public Schools bus climbs the ramp onto Veterans Parkway as drivers who called out sick on 3 September, hold a protest outside the operations center. Richard Burkhart/AP. Drivers are left ‘begging for better pay’ even as the school bus driver shortage is worsening in the new school year. Yellow school buses are part of the American streetscape, familiar to families across the US and an easily recognizable symbol the world over. But the drivers of the vehicles that shuttle America’s children to and from school are now caught up in the wave of labor unrest […]
Above Photo: The advertisements being challenged are part of Shell Canada’s Drive Carbon Neutral program, which launched in November 2020. Szabolcs Toth / Unsplash. If you find yourself filling up at a Shell station across Canada, you’ll likely be greeted by an ad, one that ensures you can drive “carbon neutral” if you participate in a program from the company. Or perhaps, you’ll stumble on a video, which shows a family circling around a city in a grey SUV, eventually ending up at a Shell station during the peak of golden hour. “See the difference driving carbon neutral can make” pops up […]
Above Photo: Top row (from left): Augustine Tang, Basia Osowki, and Wain Chin. Bottom row: Balkar Singh and Richard Chow. Alexei Hay. In early November, after 46 days of picketing and 15 days of hunger strike, members of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance won what they deserved all along: a measure of relief from the vast debts incurred when the inflated value of their city-issued medallions crashed in recent years. Under a three-way agreement among the NYTWA, the de Blasio administration, and the city’s largest medallion lender, drivers — who owe, on average, $550,000 each — will see their debt written down […]
Above Photo: Taxis parked in protest at New York City Hall. (RBLFMR / Shutterstock) A Group Of Protesters Hope The Action Will Force A New Plan From City Hall To Help Them Pay Off What They Owe On Medallion Loans. After 30 days of protesting outside City Hall, a group of New York City taxi medallion owners is taking their call for greater debt relief to the next level. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance announced Monday that a group of taxi drivers will go on hunger strike starting on Wednesday to amplify their calls for the city to adopt a more […]
Above Photo: School buses at Dewar Elementary School, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia (Wikimedia Commons) On September 3, 54 school bus drivers in the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System SCCSS) in Georgia began a rolling sickout and staged a protest at the school district offices over pay structure and lack of adequate protections from COVID-19. The sickouts forced the school board to scramble for drivers to transport students. The school relies on about 218 drivers to ferry more than 18,700 students to and from school; the 54 drivers who are protesting represent about 22 percent of the district’s drivers. A school district […]
Above Photo: The Port of Long Beach, California. Hal Bergman. Three bills would give trucking companies less incentive to misclassify full-time drivers as contractors. Like many truck drivers delivering goods from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to big retailers throughout Southern California, Juan Carlos Giraldo has a contract job, and it looks decent at first glance. His primary employer, Container Connection, pays a flat fee of $300 for a round trip from a port to a Walmart warehouse in Mira Loma. With no traffic or wait times, the trip takes four hours, which means Giraldo can make 10 […]
U.S. Army Paratroopers conducted off-road driver’s training with Army Ground Mobility Vehicles, also known as AGMV, at Dandolo training area, Pordenone, Italy. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or Central Commands‘ areas of responsibility, the release said. As to AGMV, it is a light-weight combat vehicle designed for troop movement and holds a squad-sized element. The vehicle is meant to be air-dropped into combat. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The AGMV provides enhanced tactical mobility for an Infantry Brigade Combat Team […]
British ports could face up to 7,000 lorry queues if businesses do not cooperate and get proper paperwork to make it through the county of Kent, according Minister for Cabinet Office Michael Gove. “The biggest potential cause of disruption are traders not being ready for controls implemented by EU Member States on 1 January 2021,” Gove wrote to British businesses in a letter leaked this week, laying out a “worst case scenario” for Brexit. It is essential that traders act now and get ready for new formalities. These formalities will include an internal border of sorts, that will sport police and […]
School Bus Drivers Lead Protest To Safely Reopen Los Angeles Schools August 16, 2020 School Bus Drivers Lead Protest To Safely Reopen Los Angeles Schools2020-08-162020-08-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/schoolbuses-e1597620057599.jpg200px200px Above photo: School bus drivers take part in caravan to demand proper funding for schools to support distant learning and a safe return to classes, in Los Angeles. School bus drivers from the second largest school district in the United States led a noisy protest caravan through downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, demanding federal and state funding to help reopen schools safely amid the coronavirus pandemic. The drivers from the Los Angeles Unified Schools District (LAUSD) were […]
School Bus Drivers: ‘No Reopening Without Safety First!’ By USWA Local 8751, Workers.org. August 11, 2020 School Bus Drivers: ‘No Reopening Without Safety First!’2020-08-112020-08-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/bus-e1597167325962.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Left to right, USW Local 8751 Chief Steward Frantz Cadet, Trustee Fred Floreal, and President Andre François at May 14 action in conjunction with Haitian Flag Day. The union protested recent unjust firings of their members and demanded enforcement of Local 8751’s COVID-19 Emergency Standard Operating Procedures. usw8751.org. On July 29, the Boston School Bus Drivers Union, United Steelworkers Local 8751 issued the statement below, which President Andre François read on the August 6 Workers World […]
The logo of German car maker Volkswagen is seen on flags fluttering in front of a car dealer in Hamm, western Germany, on May 25. One of VW’s many legal settlements over the Dieselgate scandal has finally been carried to its conclusion, the FTC says. Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images The logo of German car maker Volkswagen is seen on flags fluttering in front of a car dealer in Hamm, western Germany, on May 25. One of VW’s many legal settlements over the Dieselgate scandal has finally been carried to its conclusion, […]
Activists Camp At State House For Giving Undocumented Immigrants Driver’s Licenses By Lucas Phillips, Boston Globe. July 21, 2020 Activists Camp At State House For Giving Undocumented Immigrants Driver’s Licenses2020-07-212020-07-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/boston-e1595353821853.jpg200px200px Above photo: An encampment has been erected in front of the State House since Friday. People with Pioneer Valley Workers Center and Cosecha Massachusetts are rallying for driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff. Two groups urging state legislators to include a provision that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses have been encamped outside the State House gates since Friday morning, according to organizers. Happening now | Immigrant families are […]
South Dakota has agreed to share driver’s license and state ID records with the U.S. Census Bureau as part of efforts to carry out an executive order for citizenship data that President Trump announced in July 2019 with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (left) and U.S. Attorney General William Barr in the White House Rose Garden. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP Updated at 7:57 p.m. ET To help figure out the U.S. citizenship status of every adult living in the country, the Trump administration has been accumulating driver’s license information from states including South Dakota, NPR has learned. South […]
Tempers frayed in the pit lane at the Xfinity Series in Kentucky on Friday as drivers Harrison Burton and Noah Gragson traded blows in a fierce bust-up after their cars collided on the track minutes before. With just 13 of 200 laps remaining in the race, Gragson’s No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet clipped the back of Burton’s No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, causing both cars to graze the outside wall and lose ground on the race leaders. Also on rt.com Alex Zanardi: Racing icon who fought back from losing BOTH legs to win Paralympic gold has BRAIN surgery after crash with TRUCK […]
A Wisconsin man was charged on Thursday with a hate crime killing after he swerved his pickup truck to purposely hit a retired police officer on his motorcycle because he believe Harley Drivers are “white racists.” Daniel Navarro swerved his truck and hit Phillip Thiessen head on. Theissen, a retired police officer, was found dead in the road. WBAY reported: TRENDING: Radical Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant Vows to Overthrow the United States and Replace with “a Socialist World” A Fond du Lac man charged in a homicide hate crime says he intentionally swerved his truck into a motorcyclist because he […]
Royal Society president Venki Ramakrishnan urged everyone to wear facemasks as the “new normal” until the coronavirus disappears, comparing the refusal to do so with antisocial behaviors like driving without seatbelts or drunk. No one should leave their home without a face covering in their possession, and they should be worn “particularly indoors in enclosed public spaces” where social distancing is difficult, Venkatraman ‘Venki’ Ramakrishnan, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist and head of the UK scientific academy, said on Tuesday. It used to be quite normal to have quite a few drinks and drive home, and it also used to be normal […]
Antifa is posting videos online on how you can smash windshields, cut seatbelts and drag people from their vehicles. This antifa member says its necessary when Americans don’t stop and wait during their street protests. Advertisement – story continues below There is NOTHING about this group that is civil or lawful. What she meant was…. “i’ve seen some cars getting away when protesters tried to stop them, here’s a tool which should hopefully smash their window and cut their seatbelt so we can drag them out and give them a beat down” problem solved 🤦♂️🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/UtVqCLAHvX — Antifa Public Watch (@antifa_public) […]
NYC Bus Drivers Union Refuses To Transport Protesters For NYPD May 30, 2020 NYC Bus Drivers Union Refuses To Transport Protesters For NYPD2020-05-302020-05-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/bus-1-e1590847470793.jpg200px200px Organized labor is supporting people who are protesting the police killing of George Floyd. Workers for New York City’s MTA are refusing to transport people arrested during protests against police brutality in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. A video of a bus driver refusing to transport people arrested during protests in front of Brooklyn’s Barclays Center went viral Friday night. In the video, a crowd cheers a bus driver who appears to […]
Bus Drivers Refuse To Help Police, Prison Labor Replaces Meatpackers And More By Mike Elk, Payday Report. May 29, 2020 Bus Drivers Refuse To Help Police, Prison Labor Replaces Meatpackers And More2020-05-292020-05-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/minneapolis-riot-police-protest-george-floyd-0527201-777×437.jpg200px200px Above photo: People face off with police near the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct. Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via Getty Images. 230 Strikes on the Map With fast-food workers out on strike in Oakland over being asked to wear dog diapers as maskes and coffee baristas striking in Philly, our Strike Tracker Map has now risen to 230 strikes since March 1st. For more, check out the map here. Some Minneapolis Bus Drivers Refuse to Help […]