Amalgamated Transit Union workers at MARTA are protesting stalled contract negotiations with the transit agency and MARTA’s move to privatize certain operations, such as paratransit. Today, the local union president says MARTA is following a faulty road map on its way to outsourcing jobs, and its well-paid leaders are betraying thousands of middle-class workers who deserve better. In turn, MARTA’s Board of Directors lays out its plans to achieve financial solvency while insisting it has no intention of leaving their workers behind.

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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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