An inconvenient and annoying ATU Local 308 Executive Board Member. Preacher of Revolutionary Unionism. Drug-tested. Feared. Uncompromising. Black Joe Hill.
Joined December 2022
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6 May 2025
Witness one unlettered union rep battle his employer’s chief attorney regarding FOUR Unfair Labor Practice charges regarding alleged union busting at the Chicago Transit Authority.
May 7th at 9:30 am.
See the 5/5 update at my blog for the link: ericbasir308.blogspot.com/20…
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Check out Eric B For Local 308 President's video! #TikTok tiktok.com/t/ZP8pnhY37/
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Brother Eric Basir retweeted
Mar 18
Transit Worker Appreciation Day is today March 18! Join us in celebrating our hard-working transit workers! We deserve sick pay in the 2027 contract !!! It its good enough for Nora and Upper Management, its good for us front line workers as well and plus its the LAW
#TWAD
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Brother Eric Basir retweeted
Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.
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Brother Eric Basir retweeted
Feb 15
Reminder that the civil rights movement was not just random people who had enough one day. They were carefully and militantly trained political activists who deployed strategic forces to end Jim Crow segregation. Never forget them.
A young girl in a school for black civil rights activists being trained to not react to smoke blown in her face, 1960.
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Looking forward to this
Next Sunday. Unofficial. Uncensored. Unapproved. Public transit workers in Chicago are speaking up and telling the Truth about what is really going on. @BlockClubCHI @ctaaction @Suntimes @WBEZ @labormedia1 @labornotes @ABC7Chicago @WGNNews @CTAConfession @Chicago_Reader
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The latest in Chicago Transit Authority union busting: Mismanager kicked me out of a disciplinary hearing
ericbasir308.blogspot.com/20…
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We got a nice note about our interview with self-described "inconvenient" transit union leader Eric Basir.
chi.streetsblog.org/2026/01/… @EricBasir308
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30 Dec 2025
Greta Thunberg answering the question: Why are so many governments around the world ignoring what is happening in Gaza?
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28 Dec 2025
We need to delete the waiver that was snuck into our contract. CTA workers deserve #PaidSickLeave
Read the secret waiver in its entirety: drive.google.com/file/d/1G6I…
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14 May 2025
The outlaw behavior of some of the managers I deal with is astonishing. Our unions are busted. Nearly every single fellow union official is totally compromised. @JusticeTransit
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6 May 2025
I know exactly how you feel.
My sister killed herself last night. She was 33. I am not looking for a bunch of "I'm so sorry" type messages or anything of that sort. An acknowledgement is enough.
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19 Apr 2025
Sexual harassment and union-busting are important tools for CTA mismanagement in their mission to destroy public transportation in Chicago. The employee appreciation parties and trinkets are essentially mole recruitment and threat isolation. Hate me. I don’t care.
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31 Mar 2025
CTA Workers are punished when they get sick!
youtu.be/X3XdTEyYyts?si=vCas…
@JusticeTransit @CTAexposed @ctaaction @BlockClubCHI @Suntimes @ChicagosMayor @GovPritzker @ATUComm
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5 Feb 2025
Almost EVERY SINGLE WRITEUP I dealt with as a union rep would not exist if the worker had the state-mandated #PaidSickLeave
Does the new CTA president know?
@JusticeTransit @ctaaction @CTAexposed @fixthecta_CDSA @BlockClubCHI @ChicagosMayor @Suntimes @inthesetimesmag @srfreish
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31 Jan 2025
I find it disgusting that men make rules about toilet access for female CTA workers. The Truth must be told: This place is a modern, low-tech slave plantation. @JusticeTransit @fixthecta_CDSA @ctaaction @ChicagosMayor @CTAexposed
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