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Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Workers Win Raises, Reduced Healthcare Costs in New Contract
Posted OnJuly 29, 2024 byWorkers on New Jersey Transit’s Hudson-Bergen Light Rail represented by the Transport Workers Union voted to ratify a new three-year contract. The new deal includes raises and reductions in healthcare costs that will save workers thousands of dollars. Train Operators and Maintenance Workers represented by TWU Local 229 voted by a large majority to…Read More…
New Jersey Transit workers ratify new 3-year contract with pay raises and qualify-of-life improvements
Posted OnMay 31, 2024 byTransport Workers Union of America members at Local 2001 working for New Jersey Transit voted to ratify a new three-year contract that includes pay raises and additional time off. The new contract was ratified with 80 percent of votes in favor for the unit representing 180 Car Inspectors, Car Mechanics and Coach Cleaners. The…Read More…
TWU Pres. Samuelsen Blasts Columbia University for Failing to Protect Workers
Posted OnMay 7, 2024 byTWU members were working as Custodians and Security Officers in a Columbia University building in NYC when protesters stormed and occupied the building on April 30. The university epically failed to protect them, TWU International President John Samuelsen said in scathing letter to the university president, adding the union is exploring legal action against Columbia and the building occupiers.Read More…
Do You Want to Be a Crash Test Dummy?
Posted OnApril 3, 2024 byTWU International Administrative Vice President Curtis Tate criticizes a NYC plan to test Autonomous Vehicles in this opinion piece published in The New York Daily News. Tate also details why buses always need human Bus Operators.Read More…
Ahead of Critical Hearing, TWU Supports California Bill to Provide Local Governments with Voice in Autonomous Vehicle Deployment
Posted OnApril 1, 2024 byThe Transport Workers Union (TWU) supports legislation in California that would provide local governments with the ability to block autonomous vehicles (AVs) from operating on their city or town roadways and urges the adoption of SB 915 ahead of a California Senate hearing on April 3. SB 915, under consideration in the California Senate Local…Read More…
Massive Breakthrough for Trackworker Safety
Posted OnMarch 23, 2024 byThe federal government for the first time is proposing minimum safety standards to protect trackworkers from on-the-job injuries and deaths – a move The Transport Workers Union has advocated for over many years.Read More…
STOPPING AVs FROM REPLACING BUS OPERATORS, MECHANICS, AND OTHER TRANSIT WORKERS
Posted OnFebruary 23, 2024 byAs automated cars and shuttles proliferate, The TWU has drawn a line in the sand and is taking steps to protect Bus Operators and other workers from being replaced someday by autonomous vehicle technology.
The Transport Workers Union’s Technology Task Force recently secured first-of-its kind contract language with a public transportation agency in Ohio giving the union veto power over the deployment of autonomous vehicles. The contract also says Bus Operators and Mechanics cannot be laid off, or have their wages reduced, because of new or modified technology.
The collective bargaining agreement – with the Central Ohio Transit Authority – is part of TWU’s national strategy against job killing technology. It will now serve as a template for the TWU as it negotiates new contracts in cities across the United StatesRead More…
FTA ISSUES LANDMARK DIRECTIVE ON TRANSIT WORKER ASSAULTS
Posted OnDecember 20, 2023 byThe General Directive requires all transit agencies serving urbanized areas with at least 50,000 residents to immediately conduct a risk assessment for assaults on transit workers in their systems. The agencies must then work with frontline transit workers (through Safety Committees established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) to develop mitigation strategies that prevent the kinds of assaults at their property. These plans and the assessment must be submitted to the FTA for review, data collection, and policy development.Read More…
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Posted OnNovember 15, 2022 byStay Safe, Florida, As Hurricane Ian Approaches
Posted OnSeptember 28, 2022 byCategory 4 Hurricane Ian is expected to hit Florida’s Gulf Coast today, September 28. Hurricane and tropical storm warning and watches are in effect on both coasts of the state. Many TWU members are Floridians and the International wants to ensure that we are ready to assist in any way possible, if need be. Please…Read More…