Editing Amalgamated Transit Union (section)

==Timeline==
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|1892 ||style="width:10em"|Indianapolis||Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees of America is founded in September 1892
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|1900 ||St. Louis||[[St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900]]
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|1903 || ||As electrically powered streetcars became more common, the name was changed to the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America.{{sfn|Stewart|1936|p=242}}
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|1908 ||Chicago||[[Chicago Tunnel Company]] refuses to recognize the Amalgamated Association. On May 9 all workers go on strike. Company uses strikebreakers to break the strike.{{sfn|Illinois State Board of Arbitration|1908|p=95}}
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|1909 ||Omaha||An attempt to organize [[Transportation in Omaha|Omaha streetcar workers]] fails when armed strikebreakers are brought in.{{sfn|Larsen|1997|p=136}}
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|1910 ||Philadelphia||The streetcar union launches a strike in February 1910. Violence erupts, and the strike escalates into a [[Philadelphia general strike (1910)|general strike]] of unions in all industries on March 4, involving about 100,000 workers. After three weeks the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company agrees to negotiate.{{sfn|Stromquist|2006|pp=168-169}}
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|1912 ||Boston||Boston streetcar workers go on strike. After two months they gain the right to form a trade union, and a system of arbitration for future disputes is agreed upon.{{sfn|Boston's Car Strike Settled 1912}} President Mahon cedes jurisdiction over carpenters, painters, electricians, and other skilled trades to the AFL. The union's membership is divided into 34 distinct labor units, each with a separate agreement negotiated with the company's representative [[Cyrus S. Ching]].{{sfn|Raskin|1989|pp=22-35}}
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|1913 ||Indianapolis||[[Indianapolis Streetcar Strike of 1913]] starts on October 31. After rioting, the [[Indiana National Guard]] is brought in and the city placed under martial law on November 5. As a result, Indiana enacts laws that set minimum wages, regular hours and workplace improvements.{{sfn|Stoner|2011|pp=110-111}}
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|1916 ||Washington, D.C.||Workers on [[streetcars in Washington, D.C.]] are organized when local 689 of the Amalgamated Association wins recognition after a three-day strike.{{sfn|Schrag|2006|p=29}}
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|1917
|Bloomington, Illinois
|[[1917 Bloomington Streetcar Strike]]: A general strike in Bloomington occurred, by both the ATU local 752 transit workers and sympathy strikers that made up the vast majority of the town's workers.
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|1917
|Minneapolis-Saint Paul
|[[1917 Twin Cities streetcar strike]]: Efforts to organize workers of the [[Twin City Rapid Transit Company]] fail after several instances of rioting. Workers later unionized in 1934.
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|1920
|Denver
|[[Denver streetcar strike of 1920|1920 Denver streetcar strike]]: Workers on the Denver Tramway strike in response to threats of a wage cut. Company hired strikebreakers. City organizes a citizen militia, and later called for Federal troops. Local 746 dissolved, the city would not have a transport union for 13 years. 
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|1934
|Los Angeles
|Amalgamated workers at the [[Los Angeles Railway]] strike in response to a refusal to raise wages. Approximately 1/8th of the railway employees joined the strike and were subsequently fired.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 1951 |title=Los Angeles Railway History |journal=Interurbans: The National Electric Railway News Digest |volume=Interurbans Special |issue=11}}</ref>
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|1935 ||Omaha||On April 20, 1935, a long and violent strike begins in Omaha, but is not successful.{{sfn|Larsen|1997|pp=202ff}}
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|1936 ||New York City||Negotiations for the [[Transport Workers Union of America|Transport Workers Union]] to join the Amalgamated Association break down.
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|1944 ||Philadelphia||Despite opposition from the union, white workers walk out from August 1–8 in the [[Philadelphia transit strike of 1944]] in an attempt to block giving non-menial jobs to black workers. Troops are brought in and the workers return to work having failed to achieve their goal.{{sfn|Zieger|2007|p=133}}
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|1947 || Cornwall, Ontario || Workers at the [[Cornwall Street Railway]] strike repeatedly for wage increases throughout August and September in a dispute which is only ended through mediation from [[Ontario Minister of Labour]] [[Charles Daley]].
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|1964 || ||Name is changed to Amalgamated Transit Union
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|1966 || New York City||In the [[1966 New York City transit strike]], the [[Transport Workers Union of America|TWU]] and the ATU both strike against the [[New York City Transit Authority]]. The ATU represents 1,750 bus employees in Queens and Staten Island, while the TWU represents 33,000 transit employees.{{sfn|Marmo|1990|pp=28-29}} The 12-day strike leads to passage of the [[Taylor Law]], redefining the rights and limitations of unions for public employees in New York.{{sfn|The history of the Taylor Law 2005}}
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|1983 ||  ||[[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound]] faces growing competition and is forced to drop its fares. To survive, it requests a 9.5% wage cut, which the union rejects. In November 1983 the ATU calls a strike of Greyhound employees, with 12,700 members walking off the job. The union accepts a 7.8% wage cut on December 19, 1983, just before Christmas.{{sfn|Oestreich|Whaley|2001}}
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|1990 || ||A second Greyhound strike begins in March 1990. Over 9,000 union members lost their jobs when Greyhound hired an army of replacements. One striker was killed when struck by a bus driven by a [[strikebreaker]]. The strike drags on and many drivers return to work. The ATU let its members return in 1993.{{sfn|Oestreich|Whaley|2001}}
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|2006 ||Toronto||[[2006 Toronto Transit Commission wildcat strike]]
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|2008 ||Toronto||The [[2008 Toronto Transit Commission strike]] is called at 90 minutes notice and commenced on April 26, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. Emergency legislation is passed over the weekend to force the strikers back to work.{{sfn|Kalinowski|Javed|2008}}
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|2024 ||Toronto|| A TTC strike was set to commence on June 7, 2024 at 12:01 a.m. if a deal between the TTC and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 was not reached. In April, union members had voted overwhelmingly in favor of strike action if necessary, after their previous collective agreement expired at the end of March.<ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ttc-atu-local-113-bargaining-talks-strike-deadline-update-1.7227650 (June 7, 2024, retrieved January 6, 2025)</ref> However, the TTC and the union reached a tentative agreement at approximately 11:30 p.m. on June 6, 2024, and so the strike was averted.<ref>https://globalnews.ca/news/10550647/ttc-strike-avoided-june-7-latest (June 7, 2024, retrieved January 6, 2025)</ref>

The key issues for the union and its members related to job security, protections against contracting out jobs, and improvements in benefits for active members and pensioners.<ref>https://globalnews.ca/news/10550647/ttc-strike-avoided-june-7-latest/ (June 7, 2024, retrieved January 6, 2025)</ref> The President of Local 113, Marvin Alfred, confirmed Friday morning that a tentative agreement had been reached late Thursday and that talks had continued until almost 4 a.m. "What we have right now is a deal," he said. "We have something signed, but we're still preparing and making sure we can have something tangible for our membership," he told CBC Radio's Metro Morning on Friday.<ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ttc-atu-local-113-bargaining-talks-strike-deadline-update-1.7227650 (June 7, 2024, retrieved January 6, 2025)</ref> In 2023, an Ontario Superior Court judge ruled that a 2011 law that forbade TTC workers from striking was unconstitutional, and that decision was upheld by the Ontario Court of Appeal in May 2024.<ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ttc-atu-local-113-bargaining-talks-strike-deadline-update-1.7227650 (June 7, 2024, retrieved January 6, 2025)</ref><ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ttc-strike-appeal-court-1.7212758 (May 23, 2024, retrieved January 6, 2025)</ref>
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|2025
|Santa Clara County, CA
|A Local 265 chapter strike started on Monday March 10, 2025 at 12:01 a.m. against the [[Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority| Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority (VTA)]] due to an inability to agree on a new contract.<ref>{{cite news |last1=San Juan |first1=Diana |title=VTA and union representing workers on strike to appear in court |url=https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/south-bay/vta-workers-on-strike-go-to-court/3828034/#:~:text=Since%20March%2010%2C%20VTA%20bus,agency%20on%20a%20new%20contract. |access-date=27 March 2025 |work=NBC Bay Area |publisher=NBCUniversal Media, LLC}}</ref> The strike lasted 17 days until Wednesday March 26, 2025 when a local judge issued a [[Injunction|preliminary injunction]] thus compelling the workers to return to work.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Geha |first1=Joseph |title=Historic VTA Strike Will End After Judge’s Order, Some Service to Resume by Friday |url=https://www.kqed.org/news/12033248/vta-strike-will-end-after-judges-order |access-date=27 March 2025 |work=KQED |publisher=[[KQED Inc.]] |date=26 March 2025}}</ref>
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