The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 282 and their supporters
will make a statement regarding recent decisions made by CEO Bill Carpenter
Rochester, NY-- On Thursday, May 7, 2015, members of the
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 282 and their supporters will rally at the
RGRTA headquarters this Thursday protesting the decisions made by CEO Bill
Carpenter that will cost 144 workers their jobs, and leave the Rochester City
School District trying to figure out transportation for 9,000 students to and
from school as of July 1st of this year.
The decision by Bill Carpenter to pull the plug on busing
city school students came without a vote from the board, and is heavily
contested by the school district and the workers who are employed by the RGRTA.
Carpenter defended his decision as a resolution to recent violence in the
downtown transit center.
“It goes without saying that ATU Local 282 Executives and
members want to see an end to violence at the Transit Center,” says Local 282’s
President, Jacques Chapman. “The solution, however, is certainly not what Bill
Carpenter is proposing.”
Chapman warns, that if fully implemented, Carpenter's plan
will trigger consequences the CEO does not want to make public. 7000 student riders whose express transfer
buses never went to the Transit Center now will be penalized and forced to take
regular line service buses to the Transit Center potentially leaving no seats
or standing room for regular paying customers.
Because of the decision not to renew the Rochester City School District
contract, which had been subsidizing RTS operations, bus fares will have to be
increased. Eliminating 40 maintenance
personnel will strain that department so much that techs will have difficulty
maintaining and repairing buses causing even more daily cuts and missed trips
for scheduled route service leaving more customers on the street.
The workers and supporters of the RTS services will be at a
rally calling for the replacement of Bill Carpenter as CEO of the RGRTA to the
Board of Commissioners with a competent CEO who can manage in adversity and
efficiently utilize available resources.
PLEASE JOIN THESE
WORKERS AND CUSTOMERS OF THE RGRTA
WHEN: Thursday, May
7, 2015 at 10:00 a.m.
WHERE: RGRTA
Headquarters located at 1372 E. Main St. in Rochester, NY 14609
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