Published 31 Jul, 2015 This week, Congress took two noteworthy actions involving transit: 1) The House and Senate voted to provide a short-term funding patch so that federal surface transportation spending can continue until the fall. 2) The Senate passed the Drive Act, its surface transportation reauthorization bill to establish policy for transit and highways…
Published 31 Jul, 2015 The July meeting of the TWU Working Women’s Committee (WWC) marked another successful commitment of TWU sisters across divisions to share ideas, strategies, stories and power. While each local WWC has taken on a number of important projects ranging from legislative and political action to organizing and training, the International’s WWC…
Published 24 Jul, 2015 Following several days of procedural voting on the surface transportation reauthorization bill, the U.S. Senate voted this week to move forward with their sweeping transportation package. Unfortunately the bill included transit public private partnership language that would make it easier to privatize transit work. We have opposed this bill during negotiations…
TWU-IAM Association Moves Closer to Joint Contract Negotiations With American Published 10 Jul, 2015 The Mechanic & Related/Stores/MCT and Fleet Service TWU-IAM Association Negotiating Committees met for the first time this week at the IAM’s William Winpinsinger Training Center in Hollywood, MD. The Contract Preparation Program was launched by TWU-IAM Association Chair and Vice-Chair, Sito…