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TWU Wins Largest Wage Increase for On-Board Workers in Amtrak History, With Paid Family Leave
Posted OnJuly 30, 2024 byThe Transport Workers Union of America secured the largest wage increase for Amtrak workers in the agency’s 53-year history after on-board service workers overwhelmingly voted to ratify a new seven-year contract on Tuesday. The new contract includes a 34 percent compounded wage increase over seven years. The agreement covers July 1, 2022 through December…Read More…
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…
TWU Announces 2024 Scholarship Winners
Posted OnJuly 24, 2024 byThe Transport Workers Union announced the latest list of scholarship recipients. A total of 32 students across all divisions were awarded a combined $112,000 in scholarships after a random drawing at the TWU International office in Washington, DC. “I want to congratulate the 2024 scholarship winners and their families,” said TWU International Secretary-Treasurer Jerome Lafragola,…Read More…
New Freight Rail Safety Bill Would Make Trains Safer
Posted OnJuly 24, 2024 byThe Transport Workers Union is backing a new House bill that would impose new regulations on freight rail in response to the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment. Reps. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) and Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) introduced a bill, The Railroad Safety Enhancement Act of 2024, that expands on existing rail safety proposals drafted in the last year. The…Read More…
Letter on Autonomous Vehicles
Posted OnJuly 18, 2024 bySeptember 12, 2023 The Honorable Rick Crawford Chair Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure U.S. House of Representatives The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton Ranking Member Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure U.S. House of Representatives Dear Chair Crawford and Ranking Member Norton, On behalf of more than…Read More…
TWU Urges Action and Opposes Cuts to Railroad Workers’ Social Security, Amtrak and Transit
Posted OnJuly 17, 2024 byThe Transport Workers Union is urging members to contact their members of Congress to tell them to oppose the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (LHHS) funding bill, H.R. 9029. TWU International President John Samuelsen recently wrote a letter to the House Appropriations Committee saying proposed funding cuts…Read More…
TWU Opposes FY25 House LHHS and THUD Bills
Posted OnJuly 17, 2024 byJuly 9, 2024 The Honorable Tom Cole, Chair The Honorable Rosa DeLauro, Ranking Member U.S. House Committee on Appropriations Dear Chair Cole and Ranking Member DeLauro, On behalf of more than 155,000 members of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), I am writing to strongly oppose the appropriations bills for both FY25 Transportation, Housing…Read More…
TWU Tech Newsletter: Gutting Jobs to Promote Automation — A Losing Blueprint
Posted OnJuly 3, 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…
Future Leaders and Working Women’s Committees Spend the Summer Sharpening Up Skills
Posted OnJune 21, 2024 byThe Transport Workers Union’s Future Leaders Organizing Committee and Working Women’s Committee both held meetings this month and the gatherings included critical lessons for budding TWU leaders around the country. The Working Women’s Committee met in Los Angeles, where attendees listened to leaders from Local 591, who hosted the event, about the importance of representing…Read More…
Memo: Public transportation labor considerations in potential DOT/NHTSA AV pilot program
Posted OnJune 18, 2024 byTO: Interested Parties FR: Transport Workers Union of America; Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO DT: 3/8/2024 RE: Public transportation labor considerations in potential DOT/NHTSA AV pilot program As NHTSA and the larger DOT consider immediate actions to reassert federal leadership on autonomous vehicle regulation, we believe that the DOT’s Innovation Principles should govern the development of…Read More…