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 A Telephone Town Hall meeting was held on October 28 to discuss our Retirement Pension Plan and the Retiree Health Care Trust. More than 2,000 members participated and many asked important questions of the RHCT Trustees and the attorneys for the Union. If you were unable to join the call you can hear the complete recording of telephone town meeting here.

 The Retirement Health Care Trust (video)

“I find it incredible that Rahm Emanuel, who personally made $18 million in two years trading his influence in the industry that has brought our nation to financial collapse is now saying that people who work on the tracks and in buses and subways should not be allowed to go the bathroom,” Hanley said.     Read More

 

 "I, as a union leader, have been fighting on the CTA's side to help get more funding. But we feel management is always working against us,' said Robert Kelly, president of ATU Local 308, the rail workers union. "All we ask for is respect, and we don't get it here. It has always been that way. CTA always assumes you are guilty until you are proven innocent." Read More

Thank you to all who participated!

For more photos please visit the ATU's Flickr site here

Five scholarships are awarded each year. A sixth $2,000 scholarship is available for award to an applicant who will attend a technical or vocational post-secondary school.

A Questions and Answers PDF has been prepared to answer many of your questions about the trusteeship.