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TWU Tech Newsletter: A Rapid AV Expansion is Coming. Be Prepared for Chaos
Posted OnApril 14, 2025 byThis is the monthly edition of the Transport Workers Union’s Transportation Technology Newsletter. We aim to inform and educate our members, the labor movement, the public and policymakers about developments in transportation technology – and what the TWU is doing to ensure that new technology doesn’t undermine safety or harm the livelihoods of hard-working blue-collar…Read More…
Read the latest TWU Express Magazine!
Posted OnApril 4, 2025 byThe latest edition of the TWU Express is here. Check it out! https://www.twu.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/TWU_Xpress_Magazine-Spring-2025w.pdf Read More…
TWU Persistence Pays Off, Amtrak Graduates First Apprentice Class in 31 Years
Posted OnMarch 31, 2025 byFor years, Rail Division Director John Feltz pressured Amtrak officials to revive a long-shuttered apprentice program that provides critical training to become a Journeyman Carman, only to be told he was “beating a dead horse.” “My response was, ‘I’ll beat that horse until it comes back to life,’” Feltz said at the first graduation…Read More…
Victory! Onboard Workers at Brightline Vote to Join the TWU
Posted OnJanuary 14, 2025 byOnboard Attendants and Lead Attendants on the Brightline railroad in Florida voted today, Tuesday, January 14, 2025, to join the Transport Workers Union of America. The National Mediation Board announced the election results in Washington, D.C., after weeks of balloting and an aggressive anti-union campaign by the privately-owned company. Brightline has about 100 Onboard…Read More…
Read the Winter TWU Express!
Posted OnJanuary 10, 2025 byRead the latest edition of the TWU Express magazine here! Final-Winter-2024-TWU_Xpress_Winter-2024v12Read More…
Unemployment and Sick Benefits for Rail Workers to Get a Boost
Posted OnDecember 11, 2024 byBig Win for unemployed, sick, and injured railroad workers that restores benefits unfairly slashed over a decade ago The newly released text of this year’s National Defense Authorization Act includes language that boosts unemployment and sick benefits to eligible railroad workers by 5.7%. Railroad workers who are laid off or sidelined by a long-term illness or…Read More…
The TWU Beats Brightline as National Mediation Board Rejects Brightline Delay Tactics
Posted OnNovember 12, 2024 byThe Transport Workers Union of America won a significant victory on Tuesday over Brightline’s attempt to delay a union election for Onboard Service Workers at the Florida railroad. The TWU’s arguments stating that Brightline is a railroad and subject to the Railway Labor Act for the purposes of forming a union were upheld in…Read More…
The Express is Out!
Posted OnSeptember 30, 2024 byRead the latest news and features from The Transport Workers Union: Air, Rail, and TUUS.Read More…
Florida Elected Officials Support Brightline Workers Organizing With the TWU
Posted OnSeptember 30, 2024 byEight members of Congress representing Florida’s entire Democratic U.S. House delegation sent a statement of support for Brightline Florida workers’ right to organize. The statement comes as the company continues to fight an ongoing unionization effort among on-board attendants and lead attendants to join the Transport Workers Union. The lawmakers, led by Rep. Debbie Wasserman…Read More…
No more secret six-figure bonuses for Amtrak executives
Posted OnSeptember 18, 2024 byA TWU-supported bill that would end Amtrak’s shameful practice of secretly doling out six-figure bonuses without giving the public and elected officials time to object advanced in the U.S. House of Representatives today.
“Amtrak deserves every bit of federal funding it gets to provide safe and reliable transportation,” TWU International President John Samuel said. “It absolutely should not, however, be doling out six-figure bonuses to wealthy executives sitting in comfortable office suites while the actual workers are out there providing service, fixing trains and cleaning coaches all day.”Read More…