{"id":52463,"date":"2021-02-24T16:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=182806"},"modified":"2021-02-24T16:11:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:11:45","slug":"silicon-valley-bus-drivers-restored-community-rides-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/24\/silicon-valley-bus-drivers-restored-community-rides-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Bus Drivers Restored Community Rides For Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Covid cases surging in their ranks, bus drivers in Santa Clara, California, demanded to resume rear-door boarding, which is proven to reduce the risk of infection.<\/p>\n<p>Management of the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) balked, even blaming the workers for getting sick. Pressure mounted from the leadership of Transit (ATU) Local 265, and from rider and community groups.<\/p>\n<p>But it was rank-and-file bus drivers who forced management\u2019s hand when they started planning to stop boarding at the front door whether the agency agreed or not.<\/p>\n<p>Bosses prefer anything to allowing workers to run the company. On February 3, the agency\u00a0announced\u00a0that it would resume rear-door boarding.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/silicon-valley-bus-drivers-restored-community-rides-for-free\/\">Silicon Valley Bus Drivers Restored Community Rides For Free<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/silicon-valley-bus-drivers-restored-community-rides-for-free\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Covid cases surging in their ranks, bus drivers in Santa Clara, California, demanded to resume rear-door boarding, which is proven to reduce the risk of infection.<br \/>\nManagement of the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) balked, even blaming the wo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[862,304,5725,6167,9919],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52463"}],"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\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52464,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52463\/revisions\/52464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}