A new bus drivers’ union in the area is stretching its wings. Full time drivers with the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority voted in February to start a local chapter of a national transit worker union. Ed Cortez is the President and business agent for the Aspen Local 774 of the Amalgamated Transit Union He sat down with Aspen Public Radio’s Elise Thatcher to talk about where the union is now.
145 full time RFTA bus drivers are in the Roaring Fork Valley chapter of the ATU. Cortez served two terms as a Carbondale Town Trustee in the 2000’s, and has represented Carbondale on the RFTA board.
