Labor Peace or Class War?

Labor Peace or Class War?

(reprinted from the BART newsletter) Earlier this year during the negotiations with the Big 3 auto companies, UAW president, Shawn Fain said the working class in this country is facing a war – “a class war”. That is unusual coming from a president of a union in this...
What Took the Social Out Of Society?

What Took the Social Out Of Society?

The following article was written in Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). 802! That’s how many deaths from fentanyl were recorded in San Francisco last year. Frontline city workers and BART workers are familiar with the...
BART– the Land Baron: Displaced Coliseum Connections Tenants 

BART– the Land Baron: Displaced Coliseum Connections Tenants 

The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the San Francisco Bay area. Tenants from the Coliseum Connections apartment building next to Coliseum station are still displaced after their building flooded last...
BART – How Do They Think? Do They? 

BART – How Do They Think? Do They? 

The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the San Francisco Bay area. Clean stations are important to BART riders. Coming into a station that has stuff spilled on the platform or trash scattered in the...
New Hires 

New Hires 

The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Classes of new hires have been graduating and joining the ranks. Of course there are some generational differences, there always are. But the question in every...