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Not happy with the CTA's plans for cutbacks and layoffs, one CTA Union is preparing to dig in its heels. At a news conference yesterday, Robert Kelly, head of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308 (representing rail workers) said, "Public transit is not going away in a city this size. We need to fund it, and doing this year after year and now saying we need working people to take the cuts is not the way to do it." He also criticized the CTA for not trimming enough management fat, and for spending $654,000 on financial consultants over the last year. more ›