Fighting to Keep Our Children Safe

We are already taking action to ensure safe public transportatin, with our initiative to "Bring Back the Booths."  We've continued the theme by supporting the drivers, matrons and mechanics of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1181 when they went on strike over the Employee Protection Provision (EPP). The EPP has kept our City's children safe with professionals who have the training and experience to get them to school safely every morning and evening day-in and day-out.  Our campaign is about more than just sign-on letters and introducing legislation that doesn't go anywhere, we are all about results.  We took to the streets by joining the picket line, marching across the Brooklyn Bridge with more than 7,000 brothers and sisters in organized labor to whom we then spoke at the rally, and were the only candidate or elected officer to call attention to an accident by a bus operator without the EPP, where 14 were injured including the driver, matron, and children.

Picket Line with ATU Local 1181		Rally After the March with ATU Local 1181		Speaking on the Legal Decision that Lead to the Strike over the EPP