Workplace safety dominated the morning session of the 27th Constitutional Convention with International President John Samuelsen saying prosecutors need to “lock up” unhinged riders and passengers who assault TWU members. “We need urban district attorneys to lock up violent people,” Samuelsen said. “We’re not the punching bags of freakin’ psychotic people.” Samuelsen held up Brooklyn District…
TWU International President John Samuelsen, Executive Vice President Alex Garcia, Secretary-Treasurer Jerome Lafragola, and Administrative Vice Presidents Curtis Tate and Mike Mayes, were reelected today, Wednesday, September 16, at the International Convention. It was an unprecedented victory – at the TWU’s largest convention ever.
The TWU’s 27th Constitutional Convention – the largest ever – kicked off Monday with International President John Samuelsen reporting on the “unprecedented victories and unprecedented growth” secured by America’s Fightback Union over the last four years.
Thousands of TWU members responded to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. We pay tribute to them today with a full-page ad in the New York Daily News and this video.