PUBLIC FINANCING
This chapter was written for the ITF by Dr Vera Weghmann at CREW (Centre for Research on Employment & Work) at the University of Greenwich (https://www. gre.ac.uk/business/research/crew/home) to inform policy proposals on public financing for the People’s Public Transport Policy (www.OPTpolicy.org). The ITF would like to thank CREW for its contribution. Each chapter of the People’s Public Transport Policy focuses on different policy issues related to public transport. The chapters include case studies, as well as campaign materials and educational resources. The ITF’s Our Public Transport (OPT) programme promotes a social model of public transport. A social model includes organisational and employment rights for workers and requires that any expansion of public transport guarantees decent jobs. OPT: • works in target cities to strengthen the voices of workers in the development of new urban transport modes, including bus rapid transit (BRT), and in negotiating the transition from informal to formal work • campaigns to improve working conditions for all public transport workers – informal transport workers in particular – through increasing their industrial power. This includes building union networks in public transport multinational corporations, developing alliances with passengers, communities and other organisations and promoting women’s employment in public transport • works to develop an alternative public transport policy – one that is built on public ownership, public financing, decent jobs and union rights for workers www.OurPublicTransport.org