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Anniversary of TWU’s Founding

Published 13 Apr, 2011 Seventy-seven years ago, TWU was founded on April 13, 1934 in the midst of the Great Depression when transit workers stood up to exploitation and demanded their rights. New York City transit workers had tried to unionize before, but the powerful transit companies squashed four major strikes between 1905 and 1919….

Our Terminal Our Work

Published 13 Apr, 2011 Bustling midtown Manhattan was met with chants of “It’s Our Terminal, It’s Our Work” and a giant inflatable rat as hundreds of TWU members rallied outside of Qatar Airways U.S. headquarters on April 12 to protest the airline not using TWU Local 501 members when it begins operations at JFK International…

U.S. Needs Effective Oversight of Aircraft Maintenance

Published 14 Apr, 2011 In a letter to the editor published in The New York Times, TWU International President James C. Little called on Congress to pass a FAA Reauthorization bill that includes robust oversight and uniform standards foreign aircraft repair facilities. Read the letter: William J. McGee is right: Federal Aviation Administration inspectors can…

Today is Tax Day. Make Them Pay!

Published 18 Apr, 2011 While you might have spent the weekend frantically rushing to finish your tax returns by today’s deadline, many of the mega-corporations that got us into the current financial mess probably spent that time counting their money and having a laugh at the rest of us. GE and tons of other corporations…

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