Metro’s largest union is reaching out to riders with a town hall-style meeting on Monday, just before the second anniversary of Metro’s deadliest train crash.
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 says the meeting, the first of its kind, is intended to give riders and union members the opportunity to get to know one another and to “dispel any myths or misunderstandings” between the two groups. The union represents some 11,000 current and former Metro employees, including train operators, bus drivers and station managers.
They plan to focus on safety, among other issues, to recognize the train operator and eight of her riders who were killed in the Fort Totten train crash on June 22, 2009, the union’s political director Lateefah Williams said.
“We know the public and workers have a lot invested in ensuring the system is safe,” she said.
The meeting runs from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library at 9th and G streets in Northwest D.C.
