We demand that Steel Valley Regional Transit Authority (SVRTA) starts protecting public safety, and stop needlessly risking riders’ and workers’ lives!
Steel Valley Regional Transit Authority (SVRTA) Board of Directors
As infections and deaths from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic mount, ATU Local 285 is demanding that the Steel Valley Regional Transit Authority (SVRTA) provides safe service now for frontline transit workers. We need protective personal protective equipment, strategic service levels that maximize social distancing, pandemic leave and other measures to ensure we can safely transport essential workers to the front lines in this fight and protect our jobs and livelihoods throughout this crisis. Please take immediate action and sign the online petition below to make these demands by entering your name, address, and postal code. All you have to do is hit SEND.
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Steubenville/Bus Drivers are essential frontline employees that are transporting large groups of possibly contagious people in an enclosed space for 8 or more hours per day.
Some Workers have not been provided with the proper Protective Wear (PPE) to help protect us from infection of the Coronavirus.
The nature of our employment as Transit Bus Drivers requires us to provide the essential duty of transporting our communities to their needed destinations which also places our lives at risk on a daily basis. Many buses are now packed with passengers without any face coverings which further exposes us to the virus.
Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak Bus Driver assaults were an epidemic and that has not changed. Many Transit Workers are dying across the country who are simply just going to work to provide for their families.