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Transit is experiencing unprecedented budget challenges. Managers are scrambling to preserve services in part by attacking the wages of their own employees. How much of the current budget woes should be borne by transit workers and how much by the public who pay for their services seems to be the debate of the day.
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Local 587 is an association of
men and women organized to
maintain our rights and improve
our wages, hours and working
conditions primarily through
collective bargaining with our
employers.
Local 587 is part of the
Amalgamated Transit Union,
AFL-CIO. We are the largest
ATU local on the West Coast
with about 4000 active and 300
retired members in King, Clallam
and Jefferson counties.
Although the majority of our
members are transit operators,
we have approximately 800
members working in over 80
craft occupations.
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