Category: Bus news
House bill would help restore transit service, jobs
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – A bi-partisan bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives to bring financial relief to distressed transit systems and to help stem cuts in transit jobs and service. Rep. Russ Car [...]
Court orders FMCSA to consider UTU concerns
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. By Calvin StudivantAlternate Vice President, Bus Department In late August, a federal appeals court vacated the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s final rule requiring electronic onboard record [...]Bus, transit and EAS funding extended
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – Federal Transit Administration bus-project and other transit funding – in danger owing to political squabbling — will remain in place at least through March 31, 2012, following House an [...]Another UTU bus organizing win
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. PERRIS, Calif. – In the 24th organizing victory in 43 months, the UTU has added representation of additional employees of Southland Transit here. Following the lead of bus drivers and mechanics of Southla [...]
Bus companies ordered to post organizing message
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON — Employers, including union and non-union bus companies, covered by the National Labor Relations Act must now post notices on bulletin boards informing employees they have a right under [...]Court validates concern over bus-driver harassment
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. WASHINGTON – When UTU Bus Department Alternate Vice President Calvin Studivant was appointed to a 20-member congressionally created Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee earlier this summer, he was no s [...]Learning to be better leaders
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Morr By BONNIE MORR Alternate Vice President, Bus Department Bus Department workshops at the San Antonio and New York regional meetings were among the most informative in many years, and reflect the promi [...]Rising bus death toll accentuates safety reform need
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. As the UTU continues to lobby safety regulators and Congress on the need for bus-operator fatigue abatement, improved driver training and tougher bus-safety inspections, tragic events are placing even mor [...]