Local unions open checkbooks for striking transit workers

Local unions have contributed more than $84,000 to a fund to support striking transit workers, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 reported.

The total, current as of April 1, continues to grow as more contributions come in to aid the workers, who now have been on strike for almost a month, said Jerry Ewald, financial secretary-treasurer of Local 1005.

?This is all from Minnesota locals,? he noted. ?It?s from every union we can imagine.?

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Several of the checks have been as large as $5,000, Ewald said. ?A lot of just private people? also have donated, he said.

Ewald said ATU has directed most of the money to a food shelf for strikers, in the form of $25 gift certificates to Cub Foods. But as fast as checks come in to buy gift certificates, they?re going out the door with strikers.

?We have 2,146 members, and if each one got a $25 gift certificate for groceries, that would be $53,650 a week,? Ewald noted, punching keys on a desktop calculator.

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With ATU 1005 members entering a fifth week on strike, Ewald said, the Twin Cities local would appeal to other ATU locals across the country for help, ?probably soon.?

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?We have 180,000 ATU members around the country,? he noted. ?Once we put out the word we need help, they?ll come through.?

At the food shelf
The food shelf at the United Labor Centre in Minneapolis was bare as one striker picked up a $25 Cub gift certificate and signed his name and ATU badge number in a ledger. Mary Ystesund, Labor Community Services liaison, also advised him to call 211, the United Way?s First Call for Help phone line. If you give your address, she said, you will get the location of the food shelf nearest your home.

She also gave him a flyer with information about the Greater Lake Country Food Bank, located at 554 8th Ave. No. in Minneapolis and, by coincidence, right near Metro Transit?s Heywood Garage. There strikers ? or anyone ? can buy discounted groceries and, if they spend $10 or more, also will get free bread, dairy products, sweets, and sometimes produce.

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A phone call came with news that several carloads of donated groceries had arrived for the Labor Community Services food shelf. ?It?s in and out,? said Ystesund. ?I got a shipment this afternoon and within a half-hour it?s gone.?

When strikers picked up their strike pay checks on Wednesday, Ystesund said, 840 of them also came to the food shelf. She expected $17,000 in Cub gift certificates would be gone by Tuesday, before the strikers return for their next strike pay checks.

For more information
Donations of food or cash may be sent to the Labor Community Services food shelf at the United Labor Centre, 312 Central Ave., Room 524, Minneapolis, MN 55414, phone 612-379-8130. Make checks payable to “Minneapolis CLUC Food Shelf.” To donate to the transit workers’ strike fund, make checks payable to “ATU Local 1005 Strike Fund” and send to ATU Local 1005 Strike Fund, Attn. Ron Lloyd, 312 Central Ave., Suite 438, Minneapolis, MN 55414.

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