Jackson's First Consul, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, issued the following statement.
Unfortunately, contract negotiations between the JTRAN bus drivers’ union and management company MV Transportation Inc. have broken down. As a result, the bus drivers have decided to go on strike.
The City is fully aware of the significant impact this has on our community. We are encouraging both sides to return to the table and uphold their responsibilities to the residents who depend on them. We are hopeful that negotiations will resume soon and lead to a fair and timely resolution.
In the meantime, we must inform you that JTRAN is temporarily shut down. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding and patience during this challenging time.
The safety of both our drivers and passengers remains our top priority, and we will continue to monitor the situation closely.
We have no further comment at this time.
32 comments:
So what is the count of actual city services at this point? Fire? anything else?
Marxists love strikes. Right Vlad?
You know whose buses don't go on strike? The Bureau of Prisons.
September 4, 2024 at 12:21 PM
That pretty much covers it.
The population of Jackson when bus service was re-enacted in about 1980 was about 205,000. Now it is about 146,000. Almost 60,000 people have left. This may be an excellent opportunity to do away with the rarely used bus service.
you would of thought that democrats supported unions and the workers right to strike.
Not Newsworthy! Just another failed city service. Replace the Mayor!
Democrat tactic bites Democrat administration in the ass.
1:16
"The City is fully aware of the significant impact this has on our community. We are encouraging both sides to return to the table and uphold their responsibilities to the residents who depend on them. We are hopeful that negotiations will resume soon and lead to a fair and timely resolution."
Seems like they are 🤷
I don't understand union strikes. If a group of people collectively went on strike why couldn't you just fire them and hire new people? I understand the expense associated with training and hiring new employees but why isn't that tactic ever used?
You are so right. It would probably take up to eight hours to teach someone to drive a bus. Somebody had to teach those people to drive those orange things with students in them.
2:33. The air traffic controllers tried that. Reagan called their bluff.
2:33, Reagan used that tactic very effectively with the air traffic controllers
Reagan did just that with the Air Traffic Controllers.
Chockwe Antar Lumumba FAILS at EVERYTHING!!!
@ 2:12… they are all in it together…feigned outrage…everybody gets paid..
Reagan/ATC strike - apples and oranges. Federal law prohibits certain classes of FEDERAL employees to strike.
COJ can't fire the JTRAN bus drivers! They are not city employees.
Forgive me for asking this question....is JATRAN a true necessity that is utilized in Jackson and something the city needs? How many Jacksonians actualize utilize this means of transportation?
Good question. Jackson is not the "big city" it once was, not even by Mississippi standards. Like any other city experiencing blight and decline, it's trying to maintain big city items (like a zoo and public transit) when it really needs to transition itself of what other medium sized cities have.
Powers to the peoples. Free the buses.
Starting pay with MV Transportation for a CDL required bus driver is $16.37 an hour. No form of retirement benefit....just medical, life, dental, and vision insurance, with the health insurance likely having high deductibles, co-pays, and co-insurance. If you have a CDL and are worth anything, you can get better pay/benefits from other employers. I do wonder what COJ pays MV Transportation annually for a contract. They certainly can't make enough from fares to support the overhead.
If JATRAN is not operational then who is going to transport the crackheads to the Interstate intersections? Are they just supposed to bike there?
The Mair will 'continue to monitor' while really having not one damned thing to do with the situation. He just wants his nose stuck up in it.
Free the Jtran busses or else...
Water system, sewer system, library system, zoo, Jatran, potholes, bodies in a pauper's field. Is there anything that Jackson can do correctly and efficiently?
Are the JTran buses ever so full that they couldn't be replaced by something smaller like a 10-15 passenger van? Shouldn't even require a CDL at that point.
10:23 PM, recently I watched a man come to work his corner in Jackson. He drove up and parked in a parking lot close to his corner. Then he got out od his car and walked to the back of it. He them pulled a wheel chair out of the trunk. He pushed the wheel chair over to his corner then sat down in it and held out his cup.
lumumbles never met a work stoppage he didn't like.
12:21, you can’t count fire as the one city service still functional. To get the fire department to respond, you must call 911, which no longer works.
Hey 3:51, I have to correct you. The ATCs in California did strike. Ronald Reagan was the Governor of California at the time. He asked for help, and the federal government sent in Marine ATCs. How do I know this? Because my brother was one of the marines sent in. The city could absolutely ask for help or take a different path. They might be able to just get the company to hire new people and train them. Although it might be difficult if the pay really is $16-ish an hour since low-to-no-skill fast food pays that much now.
The Jackson area has a good MPO that could take over mass transit,
It will be resume this week
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