Advocacy platform empowers UMA to amass nearly 20,000 industry advocates
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UMA Members and friends have been able to use the power of social media and technology to create a network of 19,959 individuals to advocate for the issues that matter to our industry. This has been especially critical this year as operators have called on friends, family, employees, business networks, and customers to support the CERTS Act and before that the Paycheck Protection Program. With every campaign UMA Members undertake, we add more advocates. To date, along with all our supporters, we have sent 80,742 letters to Congress.
In 2020 alone, 19,880 advocates have sent 80,505 letters. Please remember that sharing works. You cannot count on everyone else to share the link, each of us has to do it. Please share our link and help get more co-sponsors for H.R. 7642. Our industry is counting on you. If you're not on social media send an email. Every letter counts.!
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2 . CERTS Act campaign in House:
Tennessee and Kentucky still rolling
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3 . Town Hall Thursdays! Join UMA colleagues for a power hour of critical industry news and updates
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Join UMA colleagues online for a power hour of legislative updates, an operator panel discussion and a report on UMA's AssurCLEAN program.
We start at 2 p.m. ET every Thursday.
Our operator panel will address the ongoing need to "Lead Your Company through Crisis." Panelists are
Bethany Schubert
of Trobec's Bus Service,
Dennis Streif
of Vandalia Bus Lines, and
Cary Martin
of Little Rock Tours & Travel.
If you are asked for a password when logging in, that's not a meeting password but your personal password for your Zoom account. Just hit password reset if you run into this roadblock if you do not know your password. Hope that helps!
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LinkedIn Learning:
Remember we will have a lesson from LinkedIn Learning immediately following the Town Hall meeting. Whether you already have a UMA LinkedIn Learning license or are considering one, you are welcome to attend from 3:00 to 3:30 p.m. ET.
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4 . Sens. Collins and Rubio release proposal to effectively allow small businesses a second dip at PPP
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Forbes
| July 28, 2020 | by Alan Gassman
Monday, Senators Marco Rubio and Susan Collins released a 92 page proposed Bill for an Act that will be called the Continuing Small Business Recovery and Paycheck Protection Program Act.
The Act is intended to correct some problems and a number of challenges that PPP borrowers have had, while opening new opportunities for many borrowers who were not treated as well as others under this Program. There is something in this new Act for almost everyone, and below we summarize the primary provisions.
This is not law yet, but based on past experience there is a very high probability that this will be passed with bi-partisan support.
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5 . How will the second round of government stimulus affect small businesses?
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More than two months after House Democrats proposed a $3 trillion
HEROES Act
coronavirus relief package to supplement the existing
CARES Act
passed in March, Senate Republicans countered this week with an outline for their $1 trillion
HEALS Act
. The latter emphasizes
money
for schools; liability protections for businesses; a second round of one-off
stimulus
checks for individuals and households; reduced
unemployment
benefits in favor of return-to-work incentives; and guidance for another iteration of the
Paycheck Protection Program
, among other items.
The HEROES Act, meanwhile, stressed a continuation of existing unemployment subsidies, enhanced individual stimulus payments and greater allocations toward state and local governments and healthcare workers, to name a few of its core tenets.
The questions are myriad, particularly whether a compromise can be carved out and enacted before the Senate takes its mid-summer recess starting August 8. But beyond that unknown, there are uncertainties about the practical execution of any final legislation, not to mention whether it will effectively target and ultimately provide its intended unburdening to a wide enough swath of American employers and workers.
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6. UMA Member Bailey Coach celebrates getting back on the road; shows they are ready to roll safely
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7 . FBI warns businesses to be vigilant about Netwalker ransomware threat
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As of June 2020, the FBI has received notifications of Netwalker ransomware attacks on U.S. and foreign government organizations, education entities, private companies, and health agencies by unidentified cyber actors. Netwalker became widely recognized in March 2020, after intrusions on an Australian transportation and logistics company and a U.S. public health organization. Cyber actors using Netwalker have since taken advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to compromise an increasing number of unsuspecting victims.
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8 . Trucking associations' tips for safe driving near protests apply to motorcoach operations, too
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For months since the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, truckers have found themselves caught up in protests and sometimes violent demonstrations on the road.
So far this year, truckers have had to adapt to the extraordinary challenges of trucking through a pandemic as well as to protesters taking to the streets in locations across the country to demonstrate against police brutality.
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UMA Membership is
FREE through 12/31/2020
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Because our industry is stronger together, we invite operators to try UMA Membership FREE through year's end. Join us.
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2020
- UMA Town Halls, every Thursday at 2:00 p.m. ET Learn more.
- Bus & Motorcoach Industry Legislative Fly-In, September 22-23, 2020, Washington, DC Learn more.
- UMA Safety Management Seminar, December 2-3, 2020, Ashburn, VA Learn more.
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2021
- UMA Motorcoach EXPO, March 3-7, 2021, Orlando, FL Learn more.
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Every Thursday at 2 p.m. ET on the Zoom platform. Join from your computer or phone.
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Resources, news and important links for advocacy, SBA grant and loan programs, and more
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