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TWU Urges Action and Opposes Cuts to Railroad Workers’ Social Security, Amtrak and Transit

  The 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…

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TWU Opposes FY25 House LHHS and THUD Bills

July 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…

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TWU Veterans Committee Tours Pentagon, Meets a Hero

The TWU Veterans Committee was already in the middle of an eventful tour of the Pentagon on July 10, learning about the inner workings of the country’s largest office building, when an unexpected guest appeared.   Retired Colonel Gregory D. Gadson, a double-amputee war hero and actor in the movie Battleship, appeared as he was…

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TWU Tech Newsletter: Gutting Jobs to Promote Automation — A Losing Blueprint

This 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…

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