BE CONNECTED, GET INVOLVED:

VOLUNTEER WITH THE P.R. COMMITTEE

Want to receive transit news updates?  Do you like to read papers or blogs?  Speak out at meetings or call in shows?  Want to monitor transit meetings?  Do you attend community meetings?  Respond to blogs, write talking points?  Carry a picket sign?  We’d love to have you join our volunteers group.

To sign up, email us at prcmte@atu587.com, or send your contact information to:

Amalgamated Transit Union

28815 Second Avenue

Suite 230; Seattle, Washington 98121

METRO’S FUNDING SHORTFALL

AND

SERVICE CUTS

We at Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 support our riders and the public at large who are all benefitting from mass transit, and we oppose cuts to service.  Reducing service when ridership is at an all time high will force more cars onto gridlocked streets, costing millions in wasteful traffic delays, pollution, and decreased regional mobility.  This is not a budget crisis, it is a funding crisis.  An adequate, stable source for transit funding must be found.

LINKS

If you have more links you would like us to consider adding to the ones below, send them to the PR Committee at prcmte@atu587.com

WHAT’S UP WITH TRANSIT?  

Meeting Times and Live Links:
 

Keep up with what’s happening in transit!  Follow these links to meeting times, and live and archived meetings of transit-related organizations:

King County Regional Transit Committee (the RTC oversees Metro)--meeting times, live streaming and TV broadcast times:  http://www.kingcounty.gov/council/committees/regional_transit.aspx

King County Council meetings-- TV broadcast times and archived videos:  http://www.kingcounty.gov/council/committees.aspx

Alaskan Way Viaduct Working Groups (Stakeholders advisory groups for the north, south and middle sections of the viaduct project.  The meetings are open to the public and have updates and presentations about the viaduct and seawall replacement project.  PR Chair Linda Anderson represents ATU 587 on the South Portal Working Group):  http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct/Calendar.htm

City of Seattle Transportation Committee meeting times and agendas-- meetings on line, live, archived and on TV:  http://www.seattle.gov/council/committees/transportation_comm.htm

Sound Transit meetings schedule and archived meeting minutes:   http://www.soundtransit.org/News-and-Events/Meetings-and-Events.xml

Sound Transit videos of board meetings, live, and archived:  http://www.soundtransit.org/News-and-Events/Video-and-Animation-Gallery/Board-Meetings.xml

Puget Sound Regional Council home page, meetings and more:  (the PSRC co-ordinates long range transit plans and money among transit agencies in the Puget Sound region) http://www.psrc.org/

Transportation Choices Coalition home page (TCC advocates for transit and alternatives to cars):  http://www.transportationchoices.org/

Transportation Choices Friday Forums (very informative monthly forums on transit and other issues):  http://www.transportationchoices.org/Forums.asp

Washington State Department of Transportation:  http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/

Blogs and News Links

ATU Dispatch --receive news updates from the ATU International:  http://www.atu.org/page/s/atudispatch

Human Transit —a blog by a public transit planning consultant:  http://www.humantransit.org/

King County E-News, twitter:  http://www.kingcounty.gov/News.aspx

Transit Riders Union of Metropolitan Puget Sound:  http://www.transitriders.org/

Seattle Transit Blog:  http://seattletransitblog.com/

Washbucket –“Non-partisan daily roundup of state policy, political news and events”:  http://washbucket.net/

Transportation Choices blog:  http://transportationchoicescoalition.blogspot.com/

Labor Links

ATU links: 

Directory of Labor Union Organizations:  http://www.unionism.com/director.htm

Labor Council Links:

Washington State Labor Council, AFL – CIO:  http://www.wslc.org/

Martin Luther King County Labor Council, AFL –CIO:  http://www.mlkclc.org/

Pierce County Labor Council, AFL –CIO:  http://wa.aflcio.org/pcclc/

Snohomish County Labor Council, AFL – CIO:  http://www.snolabor.org/

IFTPE Local 17 --Some Metro managers, such as base chiefs, belong to this union:  http://www.ifpte17.org/

Jobs With Justice –supports union activities:  http://www.wsjwj.org/home/home_default.asp

BlueGreen Alliance --environmental – labor alliance for good jobs and clean environment:  http://www.bluegreenalliance.org/home

Workers Independent News Labor Radio:  http://www.laborradio.org/

Transit Agency Websites:

Clallam Transit and Paratransit:  http://www.clallamtransit.com/

Jefferson Transit:  http://www.jeffersontransit.com/

King County Metro:  http://metro.kingcounty.gov/

Solid Ground Paratransit:  http://www.solid-

ground.org/Pages/Default.aspx