CARTA Bus drivers want hazard pay reinstated
CARTA Bus drivers want hazard pay reinstated
CARTA bus drivers and community supporters rallied today with demands of fair treatment and reinstatement of hazard pay for CARTA employees as the pandemic is still ongoing.
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Danielle has the night off.
Carta bus drivers and community supporters rallied today with demands of fair treatment and reinstatement of hazard pay for carta employees as the pandemic is still ongoing.
Carta could not be immediately reached for comment.
Nats bus drivers, families and community members rallied together outside of the hamilton county courthouse bus stop to demand hazard pay from the chattanooga area regional transit company due to covid.
I met twice about it to no avail wanted to speak to the board about it i was muted.
It was a slap in the face to take it away 10 days after the board approved backpay for the executive director and the cfo.
We're not saying the cfo didn't need the raise.
It's just not the time, they say they don't have money, still issuance out raises.
Layoffs was rescinded and in the same month promotions and bonuses were given so give us what we deserve.
Strickland says over 20 percent of the bus drivers got covid and hazard pay needs to be reinstated to covered items to help protect drivers.
Being out there on the front line put in our lives on the line our family lives in jeopardy some of us have even lost family members due to covid.
Driver james boles says he was infected with covid and he didn't know if he would survive.
My personal doctor told me if i'm not going in that hospital that i better go to that hospital or go and get me a casket because i wasn't going to make it.
I stayed in there for 23 days covid attacked my heart.
After getting a pace maker, he says he wants to return to work because it's what he loves but, he wants to make sure his family is still safe after he returns to work through hazard pay.
When i go home from work i have to strip my clothes off, wash them right off to make sure nobody in my family gets anything that i drug in that house.
Because it's not fair for them to die because of my choice of what kind of work i'm going to do.
Hannah kuhn came out to support the drivers even though she isn't one.
Nats she says she spoke so passionately because she wants to fight for what's right.
And injustice against one is an injustice against all.
That's why.
Strickland adds it's time for carta to give its workers a seat on the board.
I don't think it's really being handed down to them with transparency they need to know the ends and outs of what we do and what we face internally along with externally.
Despite the weather today, the covid-19 vaccination
