Since 1970, the TWU International has held an annual drawing to provide college tuition assistance to the deserving children of hard working TWU members. Known as the Michael Quill Scholarship, it is supervised by International Executive Vice President Harry Lombardo.
They held signs reading Stand Up and Fight Back while taking over the streets of New York and the lobbies of union busters and the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), telling each why they were there and that they would be back.
TWU locals from across the country descended to the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection, Philadelphia, to put their labor values to work recognizing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the AFL-CIO’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.
Transportation Learning Center (TLC) has been awarded over one million dollars in grants for transit workforce development.
On December 11, 2012 a new kind of history was made in a state that prided itself as being at the forefront of the labor movement’s history as nearly 15,000 people gathered in Lansing, Mich. to protest the right to work bills.
TWU welcomes its newest members the bus drivers and monitors of Durham School Services in Burleson and Weatherford, Texas as they overwhelmingly voted to join TWU for a voice on the job.
The results are in and President Obama has won!