September 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…
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…
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…
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…