{"id":7065,"date":"2016-09-02T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=7065"},"modified":"2016-09-02T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T22:23:02","slug":"amalgamated-transit-union-local-312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2016\/09\/02\/amalgamated-transit-union-local-312\/","title":{"rendered":"Davenport’s Transit Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the\u00a0arrival of\u00a0Labor Day this Monday, September 5th and Davenport’s CitiBus service in the news <\/a>of late, we here at DPL’s\u00a0Richardson Sloane Special Collections Center (the\u00a0officially-designated archives for the City of Davenport)\u00a0would like to highlight some of the information we have available on the city’s transit workers.<\/p>\n

The image below shows the title page of the\u00a0first\u00a0contract between the Davenport’s City Transit Authority and Division No. 312 of the Amalgamated Transit Union:<\/p>\n

\"Bus<\/a><\/p>\n

The contract was signed on September 6th,\u00a01974. A feature of note was that a driver could\u00a0take his or her birthday as a paid holiday! The Amalgamated Transit Union still represents the Citibus\u00a0drivers today, one of five public employee unions<\/a> that work with the City of Davenport.<\/p>\n

A few years before this contract was signed, on August 22, 1969, Davenport voters approved the City’s takeover of bus service from Davenport City Lines, a private operator.<\/p>\n

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A presentation given by the\u00a0Davenport Department of Transportation in the mid-nineteen-seventies (RSSCC\u00a0Collection #2008-12) included these photographs of city bus drivers, along with the statement:\u00a0“We will bend our buses to serve you…and will welcome you with open arms.”<\/p>\n

\"dpl2008-28\"dpl2008-28<\/a>\"dpl2008-28<\/a>Call, write, or visit us to explore more about the history of the City of Davenport, Iowa!<\/p>\n

(posted by Cristina and Katie)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the\u00a0arrival of\u00a0Labor Day this Monday, September 5th and Davenport’s CitiBus service in the news of late, we here at DPL’s\u00a0Richardson Sloane Special Collections Center (the\u00a0officially-designated archives for the City of Davenport)\u00a0would like to highlight some of the information we … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1612,1615,1617,1614,1613,430,1611,1616,138],"class_list":["post-7065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-history","tag-amalgamated-transit-union","tag-busses","tag-city-employees","tag-city-transit-authority","tag-davenport-city-lines","tag-labor-day","tag-organizations-labor-unions","tag-transit","tag-transportation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXc-1PX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7065"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7079,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions\/7079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}