Jackson Transit Workers Win Strike, Save Saturday Service

After five weeks on the picket line, 80 public transit workers in Jackson, Mississippi, members of ATU Local 1208, have won a 5 percent wage increase; beat back a plan for “microtransit,” a private on-call service that would have brought in drivers without a commercial driver’s license at a lower-tier wage; and stopped cuts to Saturday service.    Labor Notes Organizer Paul Prescod joins the pod.   Check out Paul’s coverage of the strike on labornotes.org   Jackson Transit Workers Win Strike, Save Saturday Service Mississippi Transit Workers Strike for Better Protections and Service