It looks like the long winter is not yet over at Greyhound.  We’re still trying to make sense of the mileage and job cuts just now going into effect (and trying to come up with alternatives to the slash and burn methods the company is using), and now the company announces plans to go on a witch hunt to further terrorize its workers.

         The company has finally come to its senses and agrees to comply with the terms of the collective bargaining agreement in paying run guarantee claims.  Going forward, drivers who through no fault of their own arrive at a terminal too late to operate the next portion of their run, will once again be paid as we always used to be paid before the company started shorting many drivers a couple of years ago.  Drivers in that

Today we pause to commemorate the 80th birthday of the Revered Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and to rededicate our union and ourselves to the struggle for economic equality for which Dr. King gave his life. For our union, every day must be Dr.

We all look forward with tremendous hope to a fresh new year and a fresh chance to make the kinds of changes we have long been working for. Yet in many ways it does not appear that this New Year will begin on a very happy note. The criminal lords of finance who are destroying the world economy are making the beginning of 2009 into a real challenge for working people.