What: PRESS CONFERENCE to launch SIP Campaign
-When: Monday, Nov. 7, at 12 noon
-Where: 1234 Market Street, SEPTA headquarters
-Who: community representatives, labor activists, students, unemployed, people with disabilities and other Philadelphia residents impacted by the strike against SEPTA management. (If you want to speak, add your name to the list by contacting SEPTAInconveniencePass@gmail.com)
-Why: SEPTA officials claimed in court they are concerned about the “health, safety and welfare of the public”, particularly for the poor, the disabled and the 52,000 students who rely on mass transit to get to schools. But the inconvenience to riders stems from SEPTA’s refusal to negotiate a fair contract with SEPTA’s workers as represented byTWU 234 in time to avoid a work stoppage.
If SEPTA is so concerned, the public agency should provide the people of Philadelphia with a free transit for each day of the strike.
Like all workers, SEPTA drivers and support staff have a right to decent wages, benefits and safety.
The people also have a right to safe, efficient and affordable public transit. We ask SEPTA to authorize free Inconvenience Passes and for drivers to accept this pass out of respect for community sacrifices during the strike.
Please sign the petition! (Link coming soon)
Transit Riders Initiative for the People
SEPTAInconveniencePass@gmail.com
Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement 
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