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TWU joins AFL-CIO in supporting protesters

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Adding their numbers to the growing strength of the Occupy Wall Street protest, members of the New York City Transit Workers Union today said they would take the city to court on Monday to halt the city from transporting arrested/handcuffed protesters on public buses.

TWU president John Samuelson declared the, “TWU Local 100 supports the protesters on Wall Street and takes great offense that the mayor and NYPD have ordered operators to transport citizens who were exercising their constitutional right to protest—and shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place.”

At least five empty buses had been commandeered by the NYPD from terminal points on both sides of the [Brooklyn] bridge to pick up arrested protesters. The Metropolitan Transport Authority took a softer line, having established a hand-glove relationship with the NYPD, but Samuelson said, “the order to transport violates the contract between Local 100 and the MTA.”

“Our mission is to provide transit service to the riding public, not transport people who were arrested.”

The TWU now joins the AFL-CIO in supporting the protesters on Wall Street. Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO said that, given that this is battle against the entrenched corporate elite, “we are proud to support the 99% rather than the 1%. Our workers are definitely in the 99%.”

NYPD’s heavy hand in dealing with the protesters over the past few days have only caused the swelling of masses on Wall Street, and Seattle, Boston, LA, Dallas are among the growing metropolitan areas that have chosen to launch protests in support Occupy Wall Street.

It’s only a matter of time (one would hope) before the NYPD realizes that they, too, are part of the 99%, not the 1%. Some 100 officers have already defied direct orders to make arrests.

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