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Bus Drivers Refuse NYPD

2011: Bus Drivers Should Not Have to Transport Arrested Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Says TWU

2015: NYC bus drivers’ de Blasio protest brings traffic to a crawl

2020: Bus driver union says it won’t help NYPD transport arrested protesters

Minneapolis and New York Bus Drivers Stand Up To Cops, Refuse to Transport George Floyd Protesters to Jail

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(From The Eyes & Ears of NYC Plumber) September 11th 2001 First Respond...

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Labor Quote: Roger Toussaint “An agreement will never ever, ever, ever be resolved by fear and intimidation.” Roger Toussaint was president of TWU Local 100 on this date in 2005 when thousands of workers began what was to be a two-day strike of the New York City transit system over retirement, pension and wage issues. The strike violated the state’s Taylor Law; Toussaint was jailed for ten days…

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MTA, TWU Local 100 Unveil NYC Subway Customer Service Centers

MTA, TWU Local 100 Unveil NYC Subway Customer Service Centers

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Webpage listing NYC Transit Workers lost to Covid-19. Three of the victims:

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By Stephen Millies

New York, Oct. 30 — Ten thousand transit workers jammed Manhattan’s lower tip tonight to say “No!” to the Mass Transit Administration’s giveback demands. MTA chairman Pat Foye — also known as “Pat Fraud” — is demanding workers pay much more money for health insurance.

The 41,000 members of Transit Workers Union Local 100 move New York City. A trillion dollars worth of real estate would be worthless without their labor.

Yet the big business media has been running a hate campaign against TWU members, many of whom work in dangerous conditions underground in the subways and above the streets on elevated lines.

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“tl;dr: Landlords are taking $1 of every $8 in venture capital investments due to well-organized NIMBYism that has captured San Francisco housing regulations in their favor. YIMBY has moved public opinion. Tech must now get involved.

In 2011, when Marc Andreessen wrote “Software is eating the world,” the average seed round was about $500,000, and the median rent was about $2,600. As of EOY 2018, seed rounds were up to $2.1MM and median rent $3,650.

Per employee, that’s an extra $1,050 ($1,521 pre-tax) per month sent directly to landlords. For a four-person startup, the yearly burn rate increased by roughly $73,000 (pre-tax) just in rent. If the seed round should last four years, that means an extra $292,000 in pre-tax expenses, with $201,600 of that being funneled directly to landlords instead of growing the company or other productive activity.

The 10-year view shows similar trends in both seed rounds and rents:

“While landlords are getting an extra $201,600, seed funding increased by about $1.6MM. In other words: landlords have captured $1 out of every $8 in venture capital investment. This unearned rent is gained with one simple trick: stopping the expansion of the housing stock.

the silicon valley economy. by alfred twu.

“Long-time landowners in San Francisco have rigged the game against new immigrants to the city. They control the Board of Supervisors and the Planning Commission, and they’re insulated by Prop 13 which artificially caps their property taxes far below the market value of their land while stealing money from schools, infrastructure, and police.

ROI of Action

You see (and feel) the cost of inaction, what is the cost of action?

Consider the ROI of getting involved. Reducing each person’s monthly rent by $100 is worth about $1 billion statewide. Most CA ballot initiatives take <$10M in funding to pass.

That’s at least a 100:1 payoff. With a budget of a few $million per year, we could accomplish this statewide.

The numbers are just as good when you look only at San Francisco. A $100 rent reduction is worth about $60 million per year. A Board of Supervisors election costs about $250,000 per candidate, and local ballot initiatives can win for less than $500,000. We can pass a ballot prop which would rezone the entire city for dense housing for less than a single seed round.

How can we fix San Francisco

Tech must get involved. Here’s how:

Get pro-housing and pro-tech people on the DCCC.

Get six pro-tech and pro-housing people on the Board of Supervisors.

Join or Donate to YIMBY Action.

Donate to re-election campaigns of pro-housing elected officials.

Volunteer time or resources for YIMBY and YIMBY-aligned candidates.”

read more: steven buss, 22.08.19. 

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MTA Worker Dies After Fall At 125th Street Station In East Harlem

MTA Worker Dies After Fall At 125th Street Station In East Harlem

ABC reports that an MTA worker died while on the job at 125th Street on the Lexington Avenue line early Tuesday morning after falling nine feet and hitting his head while doing debris pickup. (more…)

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JACOBIN MAGAZINE

On paper, the news out of New York last night for leftists was decidedly mixed. But it still felt good.

Democratic socialist Julia Salazar defeated real-estate industry darling Martin Dilan, winning 59 percent of the vote to represent rapidly gentrifying working-class areas of North Brooklyn. Salazar will run unopposed in the general election, so barring anything unforeseen, she will be the next state senator for New York’s eighteenth district.

Progressive gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon lost in a bid to replace Governor Andrew Cuomo, with the incumbent winning nearly two-thirds of the vote. Long-time social justice activist and current New York city councilor Jumaane Williams narrowly lost to incumbent Kathy Hochul in his bid for lieutenant governor.

A slate of progressive mainstream Democrats known as No IDC achieved several victories over a group of Democrats who had caucused with Republicans in the state senate, with challengers Alessandra Biaggi, Rachel May, Jessica Ramos, John Liu, Robert Jackson, and Zellnor Myrie all defeating the incumbents.

With Salazar’s victory, the Democratic Socialists of America continued its winning streak, overcoming (especially in Salazar’s race) unprecedented smears against the candidate from the press. What lessons do Thursday’s results hold for the Left?

Workers Can’t Be an Afterthought

Nixon made upgrading the subway her signature issue. But less than two weeks after announcing her campaign in March, she went on the attack against union workers building a new train line: “With the deals [building trade unions] have now, you can’t hope to make improvements to the trains in a fiscally responsible way. . . . Everybody’s got to pull together, and everybody’s got to make sacrifices.”

This quote was, in effect, one of Nixon’s first public statements as a candidate. Union leaders quickly struck back.

“What does Cynthia Nixon know about the construction industry? What does she know about the subways and the MTA? She says that she’s a progressive, but this kind of anti-union rhetoric shows that she is no friend of working men and women,” Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trade Council of Greater New York, told Politico. The heads of Transit Workers Union Local 100, TWU international, and the president of the New York AFL-CIO were all quick to denounce Nixon as well.

Well before March, Cuomo had cultivated intense loyalty from high-level union officials, and there was never a serious chance of any major union officially endorsing Nixon. But while Nixon issued a tepid correction to her initial statement, she remained essentially silent on labor issues until August.

Her eventual labor platform was in many ways a model for progressives running at the state level. But by the time it came out, it was too late for her to make serious inroads among rank-and-file union workers.

Nixon left union militants who agreed with her other policies hamstrung when it came to talking to coworkers about her. If the only thing she had to say about workers for four months of the campaign was that they should be paid less, why listen to her on other issues?

Future candidates running as democratic socialists — or merely progressives — must emphasize the concerns of workers, unionized or not. Socialist organizations especially must make a priority of consistently pushing candidates they endorse to advance aggressive, class-wide demands in their labor platforms.

They’re Coming For Us

Right-wing and centrist smears on prominent leftists are nothing new. But after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise victory this summer in her congressional primary, the notoriously corrupt, insular, and convoluted New York Democratic Party pulled no punches against yesterday’s left candidates.

In the last days of the campaign, the New York State Democratic Committee sent a postcard to Jewish voters suggesting Nixon is “silent on the rise of anti-Semitism.” (There is no evidence Nixon holds antisemitic views, and she has two Jewish children.)

It is unfair and inappropriate for a state party to actively support one candidate over another in a party primary at all, let alone to baselessly accuse a contender of bigotry. Still, with the Democratic Party barely maintaining even a pretext of neutrality and internal democracy, such propaganda was deplorable but not surprising.

More surprising was the intensity of the attacks on democratic socialist state senate candidate Julia Salazar. Salazar likely received more national and local coverage than any state legislative candidate in history. However, late in the race — the time when most voters are paying attention — very little of it focused on her platform to dramatically expand rent stabilization, pass the single-payer New York Health Act, expand labor rights, or reform New York State’s untransparent and undemocratic campaign-finance laws.

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But officials with Transport Workers Union Local 100, which reps bus operators, said they are not on board with the baby push because of concerns that the updated layout could lead to disputes over seats reserved for strollers, potentially forcing drivers to keep the peace.

“These situations could get ugly very quickly,” said Donald Yates, a TWU representative for Manhattan and The Bronx, told THE CITY. “Bus operators are enduring far too many assaults already and we don’t need to throw gasoline on the fire.”

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Mario Galvet TWU Local 100 @ 9/11 Museum Medallion Ceremony

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fyi, image quality is really bad on desktop, so here’s a transcription under the read more:

“what have these protests accomplished so far?

the largest civil rights movement the world has ever seen:

5/26: 4 officers fired for murdering george floyd

5/28: university of minnesota cancels contract with police

5/28: 3rd precinct police station neutralized by protestors

5/28: atu local 1005 refuses to bring police officers to protests or transport arrested protestors

5/29: activists commandeer hotel to provide shelter to homeless

5/29: officer chauvin, who killed floyd, arrested

5/29: louisville mayor suspends “no-knock warrants” in response to 3/12 [police murder of breonna taylor]

5/30: us embassies across africa condemn police murder of floyd

5/30: minnesota ag ellison takes over prosecution of the murdering officer

5/30: twu local 100 bus operators refuse to transport arrested protestors

5/31: 2 abusive officers fired for pulling a couple out of their car and tasing them

6/1: minneapolis schools end contract with police

6/1: confederate monument removed in birmingham, al

6/1: ca protestors launch campaign to stop da’s from accepting police union money

6/1: tulsa mayor agrees to not renew live pd contract

6/1: louisville police chief fired after shooting of david mcatee at bbq joint

6/1: dems and reps begin push to shut down a pentagon program that transfers military weaponry [to police]

6/2: minnesota afl-cio calls for the resignation of bob kroll, the president of the minneapolis police union (bob kroll is a vocal white supremacist)

6/2: atu local 85 announces refusal to transport police officers or arrested protestors

6/2: racist ex-mayor rizzo statue removed

6/2: 6 abusive officers charged for violence against residents and protestors - atlanta, ga

6/2: confederate soldier statue removed - alexandria, va

6/2: robert lee statue removed

6/2: civil rights investigation of minneapolis police department launched

6/2: resolution to prevent law enforcement from hiring officers with history of misconduct announced by san fran da boudin and supervisor walton

6/2: survey indicating 64% of polled sympathetic to protestors, 47% disapprove of police handling, 54% think burning down of precinct fully or partially justified

6/2: nj ag announces policing reforms

6/2: minneapolis city council members publicly call for disbanding the police and [replacing with] safety and outreach capacity

6/3: 1 officer fired for tweets promoting violence against protestors - denver, co

6/3: minneapolis institute of art, first avenue, walker art center end use of mpd for events

6/3: officer chauvin charged and taken into custody

6/3: officer chauvin charges upgraded to second degree murder, remaining officers also charged and taken into custody

6/3: va gov announces removal of robert e lee statue

6/3: richmond va mayor stoney announces rpd reform measures: establish “marcus” alert for folks experiencing mental health crises, establish independent citizen review board, an ordinance to remove confederate monuments, and implement racial equity study

6/3: county commissioners deny proposal for $23 million expansion of fulton county jail

6/3: minneapolis parks and rec cut ties with minneapolis police department

6/3: us army tells soldiers to disobey any orders to attack peaceful protestors nationwide

6/3: la announces $100-150 million cut from lapd budget reinvested into communities, moratorium on gang database, sharper discipline against abusive cops, in effect immediately

6/3: seattle changes mind and withdraws request to to end federal oversight/consent decree of police department

6/4: breonna taylor case reopened?

6/4: portland schools superintendent “discontinues” presence of armed police officers in schools

6/4: mbta (metro boston) board orders that buses won’t transport police to protests, or protestors to police

6/4: king county labor federation issues ultimatum to police unions: to admit to and address racism in seattle pd, or be removed”

This is how we get change. Together.

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MTA, TWU Local 100 Announce Future Role of Station Agents to Enhance the Customer Experience

MTA, TWU Local 100 Announce Future Role of Station Agents to Enhance the Customer Experience

Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA Next-Generation of Station Agent Role Will No Longer Be Limited to Assistance from Booths  Agents Will Now Meet Riders Throughout Stations and Support the Rollout of OMNY  New Station Agent Role Will Be Phased in Throughout the System Starting in Early 2023  The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 today announced…

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New York City: ‘ The Subways Belong to the People’ protest at MTA Board meeting, September 27, 2017.

Photos: The People's MTA

Summer has ended -- but for subway riders, it might as well still be the summer of hell. Massive subway breakdowns still occur every week like clockwork. This Wednesday, September 27 at 9 AM, the next MTA board meeting will be the site of a protest demanding that public transportation serve the people. The demonstration has brought together members of disabilities rights groups, anti-gentrification activists and members of the NYC Black Lives Matter movement. The new MTA head’s “plan” to fix the subway has only yielded reduction in service, such as the elimination of seats – in addition to plans that further criminalize riders, like the use of the NYPD to issue more summons for littering. “The constant subway delays and breakdowns get the headlines,” said Mary Kaessinger, an activist with Disability Pride and a wheelchair user. “Of course, they are the public symptoms of a system that is not serving the public, especially the 10% of the population who are disabled.” Protesters will call for an end to Broken Windows Policing in the subway – a policy that was responsible for the racist harassment and incarceration of 25,000 people in 2015, 90% of them people of color – as well as a reduction of the fare; opening the MTA books; and 100% accessibility for riders with specific transportation needs. “Even if there were no delays, more than 75% of New York subway stations would still lack elevators, lifts or other ways to make the subway available to people who can't navigate stairs,” Kaessinger said. “Even in a station with working elevators, sometimes the gap between the platform and the train is too wide, making getting on a subway car extremely hazardous for wheelchair users like myself.” Activists will also call out the role of Wall Street in looting hundreds of millions of dollars from public transportation on the form of debt service. “MTA’s debt is $35 billion,” said Teresa Gutierrez of Workers World Party. “Much of that is interest payments, money that Wall Street gets for literally doing nothing.” “The MTA board has proven itself capable only of serving bankers and real estate moguls. We need a form of community control, a People’s MTA Board. It is workers -- the 35,000 members of TWU Local 100 -- who do the hard, dirty and sometimes dangerous job of operating the subway and public transportation in general,” Gutierrez said. “And it is workers who ride it. This necessary public service should be made to work for the benefit of the workers who run it and ride it.”

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What have these protests accomplished so far?

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5/26 - 4 officers fired for murdering George Floyd

5/28 Univ of Minn cancels contract with police

5/28 3rd precinct police station neutralized by protestors

5/28 ATU Local 1005 refuses to bring police officers to protests, or transport arrested protesters

5/29 Activists commander hotel to provide shelter to homeless

5/29 Officer Chauvin who killed Floyd arrested

5/29 Louisville Mayor suspends “no-knock” warrants in response to polices 3/12

5/30 US Embassies across Africa condemn police murder of Floyd

5/30 MN AG Ellison takes over prosecution of the murdering officer

5/30 TWU Local 100 bus operators refuse to transport arrests protestors

5/31 2 abusive officers fired for pulling a couple out of car and tasing them

6/1 Minn public schools end contract with police

6/1 Confederate Monument removed - Birmingham, AL

6/1 CA prosecutors launch campaign to stop DA’s from accepting police union money

6/1 Tulsa Mayor Bynum agrees to not renew Live PD contract

6/1 Louisville police chief fired after shooting of David Mcatee at BBQ joint

6/1 Dems and reps begin push to shut down a Pentagon program that transfers military weaponry to cancels contract with police

6/2 Minn AFL-CIO calls for the resignation of Bob Kroll, the president of the Minn police union (Bob Kroll is a vocal white supremest)

6/2 ATU Local 85 announces refusal to transport police officers or arrest protestors

6/2 Racist Ex-Mayor Rizzo statue removed

6/2 6 abusive officers charged for violence against residents and protestors - Atlanta, GA

6/2 Confederate soldier statue removed - Alexandire, VA

6/2 Robert Lee statue removed

6/2 Civil Rights investigation of Minn Police Dept launched

6/2 Resolution to prevent law enforcement from hiring officers with history of misconduct announced by San Fran DA Boudin and Supervisor Walton

6/2 Survey indicating 64% of polled sympathetic to protestors, and 47% disapprove of police handling + 54% think burning down of precinct fully or partially justified

6/2 NJ AG announces policing reforms

6/2 Minn City Council members publicly call for disbanding the police and replace safety and outreach capacity

6/3 1 officer fired for tweets promoting violence against protestors - Denver, Co

6/3 Minn Institute of Art, First Avenue, Walker Art Center end use of MPD for events

6/3 Officer Chauvin charged and taken into custody

6/3 Officer Chauvin charges upgraded to 2nd Murder, ad remaining 3 officers also charged and taken into custody

6/3 VA Gov announces removal of Robert E Lee statue

6/3 Richmond VA Mayor Stoney announces RPD reform measures: establish "Marcus" alert for folks experiencing mental health crisis, establish independent Citizen Review Board, an ordinance to remove Confederate monuments, and implement racial equity study

6/3 County commissioners deny proposal for $23 million expansion of Fulton County jail

6/3 Minn Parks and Rec cut ties with the Minn Police Dep.

6/3 US Army tells soldiers to disobey any orders to attack peaceful protestors - nationwide

6/3 LA Announces $100-150 million cut from LAPD budget, Reinvested into communities, moratorium on gang database, sharper discipline against abusive cops, in effect immediately

6/3 Seattle changes mind and withdraws request to end federal oversight/consent decree of police department

6/4 Breonna Taylor case reopened?

6/4 Portland schools superintendent 'discontinues' presence of armed police officers in schools

6/4 MBTA (Metro Boston) board orders that buses wont transport police to protests, or protestors to police

6/4 King County Labor Federation issue ultimatum to police unions, to admit to and address racism in Seattle PD, or be removed

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