Transit
Senate introduces key transit operations bill to fix broken transit funding rules
Posted OnMay 14, 2024 byThe U.S. Senate has introduced a bill backed by the Transport Workers Union that would establish a new program within the Federal Transit Administration to support transit operations – a critical step for transit agencies across the country seeking to improve and expand service while facing major budgetary shortfalls. The bill, introduced by Sens….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…
TWU Tech Newsletter: While Autonomous Vehicles Continue to Fail, Dangerous Experimentation Continues
Posted OnMay 1, 2024 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…
Victory for Transit Safety: FTA Sides with TWU Over Agency Executives on Safety Plans
Posted OnApril 10, 2024 byThe Biden Administration rejected efforts by transit executives to sideline workers when drafting mandatory safety plans addressing assaults, equipment malfunctions, traffic accidents, and other on-the-job hazards – a big win for workers and for The Transport Workers Union. The American Public Transportation Association wanted federally mandated safety committees with worker representatives to be advisory panels…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…
TWU VICTORY: LA Metro Board Cancels Proposed Takeover of Bikeshare Program
Posted OnMarch 27, 2024 byThe Transport Workers Union successfully fought a proposed takeover of La Metro’s Bike Share – keeping good jobs in place that provide economic certainty. The LA Metro Board on Tuesday evening notified the TWU it intends to cancel a request for proposal that would have potentially nullified an industry-leading contract for bikeshare workers that was…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…
TWU Celebrates Women’s History Month With a Look Back
Posted OnMarch 20, 2024 byIn honor of Women’s History Month, we dove deep into the TWU archives. In those archives we found not just TWU history but history about our TWU Women in the workforce. In light of those findings we would like to take a moment to honor those women. Dorothea Williams, TA railroad clerk from Local 100,…Read More…
Workers Over Robots: TWU’s Technology Push Gets National and International Press
Posted OnMarch 14, 2024 byAfter the Transport Workers Union announced it secured first-of-its-kind contract language to give labor veto power over the deployment of autonomous vehicles, the national media is taking note. Politico first covered the announcement of contract language with the Central Ohio Transit Authority that prevents the agency from laying off Bus Operators or Mechanics or…Read More…