Category: ATU Local 757

  • Your Questions For Neil, “Round 5″, Part 2 – Ridership / Operations / Budget

    Yesterday, we posted the first in a series of videos featuring Portland Transport’s interview with TriMet’s Neil McFarlane, based on your questions. Today, here’s Part 2… Today’s topics are Ridership, Operations and Budget: Recent press about transit at historically high levels, but TriMet’s has not fully recovered to pre-2009. Some service has recently been restored,…

  • TriMet Takes $10 Million Hit from ERB, Claims Victory

    Both ATU and TriMet appear to be claiming victory in in the recent ruling by the Oregon Employee relations board. It would appear that TriMet does indeed get the contract imposed by the arbitrator (good news), but cannot collect retroactive health-care contributions from employees (bad news) and must refund some contributions (more bad news). TriMet’s…

  • Your Questions for Neil, “Round 4”, Part 1 – Labor Relationship

    Last week, we interviewed TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane using your suggested questions as a basis for the discussion. The result is a series of 4 videos of the major topic areas of that discussion. Today’s video focuses on the labor relationship between TriMet and the ATU. Navigation: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part…

  • TriMet wins aribtration with ATU 757

    As mentioned in the open thread, TriMet has prevailed against ATU Local 757 in the abitration over the 2009 contract offer. TriMet’s “Modified Final Offer” is retroactively imposed, and expires–this fall. An announcement by TriMet is here, the ruling is here. Earlier, The Oregonian summarized the contract proposals here, and profiled the arbitrator here. The…

  • Oregonian Ready to Drop Binding Arbitration for TriMet and ATU

    And they’d like the Legislature to fix it. “Binding arbitration is a high-stakes game of chance that could produce a terrible result for TriMet and the people who rely upon its services. It’s also unnecessary. The Legislature made an enormous blunder in 2007, when it voted in strongly bipartisan fashion to treat transportation workers like…