Committee for One Fighting Transit Union

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  • Vote One Fighting Union

    Vote One Fighting Union

    Vote for Elliot Brown, ATU Conference Delegate, Seat 6

    I’m running for ATU Conference Delegate on a program to fight back against the company’s attacks! It’s time we stop negotiating—pleading—with our backs against the wall. We can stop the trains and buses on a dime. We need to consolidate that power and use it for once!

    Here’s how:

    • Demand wages high enough so we can live where we work! We should have voted down the contract and fought for higher raises to win back what we’ve lost to inflation and giveback contracts, plus full cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) against inflation. We shouldn’t have to work tons of overtime and endure long commutes just to afford rent or mortgage!
    • Unleash union power! Down with union probation and the no-strike clause! Increase the strike fund now! Coordinate actions in and be- tween the unions!
    • Fight against all divisions that drive down our wages and benefits!
      Abolish tiers and steps! Equal pay for equal work! Defend immi-
      grants with union action, not sanctuary state and city scams! Fight to end segregation on and off the job! For one seniority list, with shift and weekend pay differential and massive hiring so no one gets bumped!
    • Merge ATU, TCU and SMART into one fighting union! United we are stronger!
    • Oppose the Democrats and Republicans! Let’s build a party that puts workers in charge from top to bottom! Trump will make workers’ lives miserable, but the Democrats paved the way! The union brass tells us to vote for Democrats, but you can’t fight the bosses if you’re in bed with their political parties. There was a working-class alternative in the national elections: Claudia De la Cruz of the Party for Socialism and Liberation for President and ATU 1277 brother Juan Rey for US Congress.

    Vote for me for ATU Conference Delegate, Seat 6!

    Endorsed by: Committee for One Fighting Transit Union

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  • It’s Time Labor Supports Labor Candidates!

    It’s Time Labor Supports Labor Candidates!

    ATU 1277 leaders used legitimate fear of Trump’s return to push through a rotten 5-year contract. But what do LA

    Metro unions get by relying on the Democrats?

    Takeaways!

    2003: ATU 1277 President Neil Silver ends a strike without a contract, pushing for arbitration with union-backed councilmember Antonio Villaraigosa and others. ATU workers start large monthly payments for healthcare, followed by UTU (SMART) and TCU!

    2012: Union-backed Governor Jerry Brown enacts his “biggest rollback to public pensions” in California history, called PEPRA. All California workers hired later receive a second-class retirement!

    2024: ATU 1277 leaders squash our demand to increase our measly strike fund, saying “friends” in Sacramento are sponsoring a bill to give striking workers unemployment. But union-backed Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed that bill last year! Republicans do the same!

    For President and VP:

    For US Congress, LA District 37

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  • Vote No!

    Vote No!

    On the ATU and TCU contracts of 2024

    Whether Trump or Biden wins in November, this country is in the express lane to hell. Despite having a 5-year (turned 7-year) contract in 2017 on practically the same terms as the current offer, inflflation turned our “raise” into a deep pay cut. Instead, we need:

    for the past

    • A raise high enough to at least get back what we lost!

    for the present

    • Not just a QWA but a full Cost of Living Adjustment to protect against future inflation!

    for the future

    • Maximum leverage—a 3-year contract to end before the Olympics and be in sync with SMART!

    Transit workers need to be prepared to fifight back collectively against the attacks of the LA Metro bosses and government, who pit us against each other and make our lives and jobs harder.

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