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The N.C. Department of Transportation requires training on the warning signs that someone is being transported against their will.

Assaults on transit workers are up around the country, prompting federal regulators to require major transit systems to conduct internal safety assessments, according to a draft proposal from the Federal Transit Administration. The plan is meant to “address the significant and continuing nationwide safety risk associated with assaults on transit workers,” the feds wrote. Regulators reported a ...

Federal regulators are proposing requiring transit agencies to assess worker safety amid an “unacceptable” level of assaults. “Everyone deserves a safe workplace, including and especially the frontline transit workers who keep our nation moving,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a press release Wednesday. “Assaults on transit workers are unacceptable, and I look forward to…

Transit workers in Winnipeg with the ATU Local 1505 have voted to accept a new contract, which offers a wage increase of 12.6 per cent compounded

The union representing SEPTA's transit police will pause its plans to strike and take more than two weeks to mull over the latest contract proposal from SEPTA. 

Peterborough Transit workers last went on strike in 2005. The union representing staff says if a deal isn't reached by the weekend, workers could be on the picket line on Nov. 20.

Ashley Moody claims unlawful federal government ‘overreach,’ but unions warned this would happen before the law was passed.

How the Irish and its labor leaders were behind Labor Day. Labor Day is a little like Christmas: people have forgotten the meaning of it. While people eagerly wait for their presents, the birth of Christ gets lost somewhere in the wrappings.

This Labor Day, more than any, is a time to celebrate our Irish heroes who gave their voice to the workers of America. How could Labor Day not be an Irish holiday when the labor movement was inspired by giants such as Mike Quill, Mother Jones, Terence Powderly, and the founder of Labor Day, Peter McGuire.

Summerfest turns 55, Black Widows surf into The Foundation, bicycle races in Bay View, QWERTYFEST MKE, Johanna Rose, SUGO at The Baaree, the return of Junior Brantley, Jen B. Larson’s Hit Girls and more—This Week in Milwaukee!