TEAMSTER PRESIDENT DENIES INSULTING CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE BUS RIDER UNION // EL PRESIDENTE DE LA UNION TEAMSTERS NO FUE UN TRAIDOR
2 min readby Brian Flagg Tim Stellers’ column in Sunday’s Daily Star (http://tucson.com/news/local/columnists/steller/steller-council-could-have-helped-avert-bus-strike/article_cf85fb57-8986-5dae-839e-a913ebba70e4.html) was an attack on the Bus Riders Union and the majority of the City Council who have, for the most part, supported the transit system, bus riders and poor people. His column was a crude attempt to pit working people against poor people. Steller claims that if the council would have previously raised fares and cut many more routes they would now have the money to pay more to bus drivers and mechanics and thus avoid the current strike. The quotes attribute to Teamster President Andy Marshall in the