Notes

1. Local 689 Safety Mission
• Bring awareness about WMATA's inability to provide for an effective safety culture and their failure to protect the workplace, riders and workers.
• DC Council & DC Mayor Muriel Bowser needs to make assaults on Transit Employees a felony.
• WMATA needs to increase police presence for the transit system.

2. Identify personal assets, resources, and time available
• Identify assets – Operators provides a safe riding experience to the passengers, keeping the public safe and providing vital information about safety in the workplace.
• Resources – Employee handbook, SOP, Call to Action Committee, Front line workers, Local 689 members, Media and the Public.
• Time available – We have till Friday 6:30 AM.
3. Decentralize the planning process.

• Getting shop stewards and frontline workers involved in the planned action.
4. Determine a specific course of action
• August 31, 2017 3:30 AM: Asking members at Bladensburg to support each other in refusing to operate the X2 on Friday, and you're preparing them to refuse with a safety related statement like "I don't believe WMATA can protect my life and the lives of my passengers so I will not operate this bus until they implement these changes...." or something to that effect.
• Start mobilizing all ATU Local 689 to show solidarity by attending the arraignment at DC Superior Court Room C-10 at 9:00 am. Inform all to wear their red ATU Local 689 shirt.
• Start preparing for the media event at Minnesota Ave metro station at 7:00 AM. Blast social media about the action of solidarity but keep the no service for the x2 discreet. Start phone banking. Create signs. Choose a speaker who will read the written statement on behalf of the Union. Contact more media outlets. Brainstorm Props. Start networking with alliances. Blitzing all work places and informing the members about the mission.
• September 1, 2017 3:30 AM – Call to Action Members and Union Representatives report to Bladensburg Bus Garage to support the bus operators who will refuse to operate x2 line until WMATA implements the safety changes.
• September 1, 2017 6:30 AM – Arrive early with all participants, stage and address the issues to the riding public and media.

5. Plan for likely contingencies through each phase of the operation.
• Follow through with a presentation of safety issues at the WMATA board meeting on September 21, 2017.

6. Mitigate risks that can be controlled as much as possible
• Mitigate any retaliation by management.
• Mitigate insubordination cases for refusal to operate the bus.
• Mitigate 1075 cases by asking the operator if they are clean.

7. Delegate portions of the plan and brief to key leaders.
• Delegating portions of the plan to shop stewards and work place leaders to perform and brief them about the action.

8. Continually check and question the plan against emerging information

9. Brief the plan to all participants

10. Conduct post debriefing