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Barrie Transit Workers Vote 96.5% for Strike as MVT Refuses to Bargain in Good Faith
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, March 5 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO Amalgamated Transit Union issued the following news release:
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Barrie Transit Workers Vote 96.5% for Strike as MVT Refuses to Bargain in Good Faith
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"March 23 Strike Deadline Looms as ATU Canada and ATU International Back Barrie ATU Local 1775 Transit Workers in Full"
BARRIE, ON -Frustrated by continuing stalled negotiations, members of ATU Local 1775 have voted 96.5% in favour of strike action against MVT Canadian Bus Inc., the Dallas, Texas-based company holding a 20-year contract to operate Barrie Transit. With a potential
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland, March 5 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO Amalgamated Transit Union issued the following news release:
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Barrie Transit Workers Vote 96.5% for Strike as MVT Refuses to Bargain in Good Faith
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"March 23 Strike Deadline Looms as ATU Canada and ATU International Back Barrie ATU Local 1775 Transit Workers in Full"
BARRIE, ON -Frustrated by continuing stalled negotiations, members of ATU Local 1775 have voted 96.5% in favour of strike action against MVT Canadian Bus Inc., the Dallas, Texas-based company holding a 20-year contract to operate Barrie Transit. With a potentialstrike date of March 23, 2026, the company faces a united workforce that has run out of patience.
Local 1775 President and Business Agent Cory Trew, who has served 15 years with the union, called it the first time in his tenure that workers have moved toward a strike. The dispute centres on chronic scheduling failures, a lack of respect from management, unfair labour practice allegations, and MVT's decision to send an American union-busting firm with no grounding in Canadian labour law to conduct negotiations.
"A 96.5% strike mandate is not a negotiating tactic; it is a verdict. That is fifteen years of workers who have never once asked for a fight, telling this company that enough is enough. MVT sent a firm that does not know Canadian labour law and does not care to learn it. They came to Barrie to break us, not to bargain with us. They miscalculated."
-Cory Trew, President/Business Agent, ATU Local 1775.
ATU Canada and ATU International are calling on MVT Canadian Bus Inc. to return to the table immediately with a qualified Canadian labour relations representative and negotiate a contract that reflects the value Barrie's transit workers deliver every day.
"When a company sends union-busters to undermine our members, it reveals everything we need to know about them. ATU International stands shoulder to shoulder with our Local 1775, and we will not rest until Barrie's transit professionals have a contract that honours what they do for this community every day and ensures a safe and reliable transit system our riders deserve."
-John Costa, International President, Amalgamated Transit Union.
"Transit workers move this city before it wakes up, through every shift and every season, and they deserve to be treated with the dignity that work demands. MVT Canadian Bus Inc. has a choice to make: come to the table and respect these professionals or face a workforce that knows exactly what it is worth."
-John Di Nino, ATU Canada.
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Original text here: https://www.atu.org/media/press/2026/barrie-transit-workers-vote-96-5-for-strike-as-mvt-refuses-to-bargain-in-good-faith
AFGE President Responds to Removal of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
WASHINGTON, March 5 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Government Employees issued the following news release:
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AFGE President Responds to Removal of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
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Largest federal employee labor union was among first to call for Noem's outster following deadly Minneapolis attack
WASHINGTON - American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley today issued the following statement in response to President Trump's removal of Kristi Noem as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security:
"AFGE was among the first to call for
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WASHINGTON, March 5 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Government Employees issued the following news release:
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AFGE President Responds to Removal of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
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Largest federal employee labor union was among first to call for Noem's outster following deadly Minneapolis attack
WASHINGTON - American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley today issued the following statement in response to President Trump's removal of Kristi Noem as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security:
"AFGE was among the first to call forthe removal of Kristi Noem on January 26, two days after our union brother Alex Pretti was killed in Minneapolis. Accountability matters, and this action was long overdue.
"Secretary Noem's tenure was a disaster for the men and women of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. She gutted leadership at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and bottlenecked disaster relief. She attacked the rights of officers at the Transportation Security Administration. She drove an exodus of experienced professionals from across the department.
"She is gone. But the DHS shutdown is not.
"For the third time since October, employees at TSA, FEMA, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are working without a paycheck due to a lapse in appropriations.
"Meanwhile, the United States has entered a large-scale military conflict in the Middle East. The threat to the homeland is real and growing. This is exactly the kind of moment Congress created DHS to confront after the September 11 attacks. A well-functioning and well-funded TSA is vital to protecting the American people from terrorism.
"Secretary Noem's removal changes the political dynamics that produced this standoff. Congress should seize this moment and immediately pass a measure to make sure the men and women protecting our country are being paid."
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Original text here: https://www.afge.org/link/c1df30d2cb7246379d1a0f7ddb2893a8.aspx
NEU Cymru publish plans to save education in Wales
LONDON, England, March 4 [Category: Union] (TNSrep) -- The National Education Union issued the following news release:
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NEU Cymru publish plans to save education in Wales
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National Education Union (NEU) Cymru has published a manifesto to Save Education in Wales, helping political parties to ensure their plans reflect the needs of the education workforce and learners in Wales, ahead of the Senedd elections in May.
Speaking about the manifesto (https://neu.org.uk/sites/default/files/2026-02/NEU3948%20Wales%20manifesto%202026%20ENG%20pdf.pdf), Nicola Fitzpatrick, Wales Secretary for the
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LONDON, England, March 4 [Category: Union] (TNSrep) -- The National Education Union issued the following news release:
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NEU Cymru publish plans to save education in Wales
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National Education Union (NEU) Cymru has published a manifesto to Save Education in Wales, helping political parties to ensure their plans reflect the needs of the education workforce and learners in Wales, ahead of the Senedd elections in May.
Speaking about the manifesto (https://neu.org.uk/sites/default/files/2026-02/NEU3948%20Wales%20manifesto%202026%20ENG%20pdf.pdf), Nicola Fitzpatrick, Wales Secretary for theNational Education Union said:
"NEU Cymru members are clear that education must be a priority for the next Welsh Government. May's election is important, this is our chance to vote for education in Wales.
"Funding is clearly a priority for NEU Cymru - along with trusting the workforce and ending child poverty. The next Welsh Government needs to invest in education to ensure that we are supporting the next generation. But we can't be complacent.
"There are parts of the education system that we need to protect - no academisation of schools, for example, because in Wales children are the priority, not private interests. Free school meals for all our primary school children must be protected. And our Welsh values are important too - protecting diversity, equality and inclusion."
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Original text here: https://neu.org.uk/latest/press-releases/neu-cymru-publish-plans-save-education-wales?_locale=en
Administration's Proposed Changes to Reduction in Force Rules Will Trigger Another Mass Layoff of Federal Workers, AFGE Says
WASHINGTON, March 4 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Government Employees issued the following news release:
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Administration's Proposed Changes to Reduction in Force Rules Will Trigger Another Mass Layoff of Federal Workers, AFGE Says
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Changes would enable administration to fire federal workers under guise of tainted performance-based reviews, union warns
WASHINGTON - American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley today issued the following statement in response to the Office of Personnel Management's proposed rule to be published
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WASHINGTON, March 4 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Government Employees issued the following news release:
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Administration's Proposed Changes to Reduction in Force Rules Will Trigger Another Mass Layoff of Federal Workers, AFGE Says
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Changes would enable administration to fire federal workers under guise of tainted performance-based reviews, union warns
WASHINGTON - American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley today issued the following statement in response to the Office of Personnel Management's proposed rule to be publishedtomorrow in the Federal Register that would revise the rules for conducting reduction-in-force actions targeting federal employees:
"After losing more than 300,000 civil servants in the past year, this proposed rule is setting the stage to arbitrarily fire even more federal employees in the administration's efforts to dismantle the non-partisan civil service.
"By gutting seniority protections and handing agencies sweeping new discretion over who stays and who goes, OPM is making it easier to conduct politically motivated layoffs dressed up as 'performance-based' decisions. But the performance system itself is being rigged by another recent proposed OPM rule that would cap how many employees can receive high ratings, ensuring that 'performance' reflects not actual merit but management's subjective preferences. This rule would weaponize those ratings, making performance the dominant RIF factor, letting agencies use subjective awards to sort employees, and stripping many workers out of RIF protections entirely.
"This proposal is part of a coordinated campaign. It follows proposed rules last month to strip away independent review of RIFs and institute a forced performance ratings system. Together, these proposed rules represent a blueprint for faster, less accountable mass firings and another step in the administration's effort to dismantle the nonpartisan civil service. AFGE will be filing public comments on the proposed rule and reviewing all legal options if OPM moves forward with it."
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Original text here: https://www.afge.org/link/b6be814038b742eeb8a810e7089d77e6.aspx
