{"id":2147,"date":"2020-12-14T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=139172"},"modified":"2020-12-14T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T17:13:00","slug":"workers-should-run-the-world-a-bus-operators-perspective-a-conversation-with-erek-slater-a-bus-operator-for-the-chicago-transit-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/14\/workers-should-run-the-world-a-bus-operators-perspective-a-conversation-with-erek-slater-a-bus-operator-for-the-chicago-transit-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers Should Run the World: A Bus Operator&#8217;s Perspective \u2013 A conversation with Erek Slater, a bus operator for the Chicago Transit Authority."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>We chat with Erek Slater, a&nbsp;bus oper\u00ada\u00adtor for the Chica\u00adgo Tran\u00adsit Author\u00adi\u00adty, where he\u2019s been work\u00ading for the past <span class=\"numbers\">15<\/span>&nbsp;years. Erek is a&nbsp;fam\u00adi\u00adly man, a&nbsp;father, and a&nbsp;three-term elect\u00aded shop stew\u00adard and exec\u00adu\u00adtive board mem\u00adber of the Amal\u00adga\u00admat\u00aded Tran\u00adsit Union, Local <span class=\"numbers\">241<\/span>. We talk about his work\u00ading life and all that goes into being a&nbsp;bus oper\u00ada\u00adtor, all the things that pas\u00adsen\u00adgers nev\u00ader see\u2009\u2014\u2009even though we depend on work\u00aders like Erek every day to live our lives. We also talk about Erek\u2019s expe\u00adri\u00adence as a&nbsp;shop stew\u00adard and about his unshake\u00adable com\u00admit\u00adment to hon\u00ador, jus\u00adtice, and empow\u00ader\u00ading the work\u00ading class. In fact, it was because he stood up for these things that he was unjust\u00adly dis\u00admissed from his job in&nbsp;May.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/14\/workers-should-run-the-world-a-bus-operators-perspective-a-conversation-with-erek-slater-a-bus-operator-for-the-chicago-transit-authority\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We chat with Erek Slater, a\u00a0bus oper\u00ada\u00adtor for the Chica\u00adgo Tran\u00adsit Author\u00adi\u00adty, where he\u2019s been work\u00ading for the past 15\u00a0years. Erek is a\u00a0fam\u00adi\u00adly man, a\u00a0father, and a\u00a0three-term elect\u00aded\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}