ATU International

• RIPTA drivers worry about 25 passenger limit during COVID-19 pandemic March 28, 2020
  Some bus drivers for the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) are worried about a directive to allow as many as 25 passengers on their buses.
• ATU applauds Congressional passage of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, $25 billion for critical emergency transit funding March 28, 2020
• Life In Quarantine: Connecticut Couple Awaits COVID-19 Test Result March 26, 2020
  As COVID-19 spreads further across the state, more people who suspect they might have the virus are seeking testing. Tests remain in high demand as the state struggles to get residents results in less than a week.
• ‘Just Keep Up the Faith’: Workers Are Stepping Up to Beat the Coronavirus March 26, 2020
  From hospital wards to bus routes to a ventilator plant in Wisconsin, working-class Americans are giving their all.
• Union: TARC drivers want changes to daily operations amid COVID-19 outbreak March 26, 2020
  Members of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), which represents bus drivers and support workers, said protocols and work conditions need to change to help prevent the spread of the new virus.

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