Wednesday, January 15, 2014

For public transport to serve the working classes

In the process of impoverishment and dispossession that are suffering all employees / workers and popular sectors, the month of January we will probably be beaten by TMB with a new rise in public transport fares.
Public transport is a fundamental right of all workers to stop and we have this new process we are experiencing looting, theft fledged social.

Too long ago that we suffer an unjustified increase of public transport, encouraged by all political parties in the different governing bodies.

The overhead of managing public funding of private transportation in the metropolitan area (three agencies most all municipalities that are part of) who have suffered no cuts or salary or senior officials, and the lack of pressure tax allocated to public transport, for example on private vehicles, are clear examples. This financing system is unsustainable, and the political class only provides solutions that harm citizens, the users of public transport.

We condemn, in addition, the use of public money to fund private companies that provide shuttle service (lower section and Besos, Bicing, etc..), While its follow directions monetize.

Some of the measures proposed are:

a) Free for people unemployed or poverty
b) Social Tariff for pensioners, students and children
c) the increase in prices for transport under any circumstances
d) Recovery of public management of all carriers
e) No dismissal or reduction of wages and labor workers and Metro
f) Readmission of Andrew Cape, TMB worker fired for denouncing embezzlement managers TMB

Public transport is a right, not a privilege"