I have never understood why labor unions are so anti-public transit.<\/p>\n
It is so clear that it is an unmitigated good <\/em>form of transportation from the perspective of good union jobs. After all, as this article points out<\/a>, you can’t off-shore transit system construction jobs or transit operator jobs, all of which tend to be unionized. And this is nothing new. Over at Good Jobs First<\/a>, the case against anti-transit suburban sprawl has been made for years.<\/p>\n Despite all of this, union leadership continues to fight smart growth efforts and transit promotion efforts — especially here on the local level. Last year the local Teamsters union president even spoke in support of jacking bus fares, resulting in a rapid drop in ridership.<\/p>\n Geniuses.<\/p>\n Union folks need to start electing new leadership, and soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Transit is good for organized labor. Yet organized labor continues to militate against transit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,452],"tags":[597,596,599,1326,598,600,601],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-transit","category-urban-designplanninggeography","tag-firedoglake","tag-good-jobs-first","tag-good-union-jobs","tag-public-transit","tag-smart-growth","tag-suburban-sprawl","tag-teamsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}