Bus Consolidation A Big Mess

On Thursday July 8th 2010 Union officials from the OA sat down with the President and the attorneys to discuss ways of addressing the bus consolidation issues and the way the layoff were conducted by the TA! We concluded that bus consolidation did nothing but give the members the right to transfer from the OA to the TA... and vice versa while giving the TA the right to eliminate the blockage of equipment and personnel. Under the agreement bus operators were hired in a civil service/non civil service ratio! Now that layoffs occurred and the OA was affected more, we believe that bus consolidation should be challenged! These explorations are ongoing. To date bus consolidation has had a negative affect on employees who work in the department of buses and the maintenance departments. The goal of bus consolidation is to regionalize the system so as to reduce the costs associated with overtime, and work rules. The 2002 agreement on bus consolidation has done nothing but hurt the DOB unions (Mabstoa TA Surface.)