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TWU Flight Attendants at FSI Overwhelmingly Ratify a New Five-Year Contract
Posted OnDecember 16, 2025 byFlight Attendants at TWU Local 578 ratified a new five-year contract on Monday with over 96 percent voting in favor of a deal that increases wages and provides critical quality-of-life gains. “Flight Attendants at TWU Local 578 voted massively to ratify a new contract that immediately offers life-changing raises, approaching 50 percent over five years,” said TWU International President John Samuelsen….Read More…
Akron Metro CEO Quietly Rakes in Big Pay Bonuses While Workers Get Nothing
Posted OnDecember 10, 2025 byThe Transport Workers Union is blasting Akron Metro leaders and warning of a potential strike, partly because of secretive pay bonuses totaling around $72,000 given to Metro CEO Dawn Distler while workers have been denied raises. Akron Metro Bus Operators and other workers, represented by Transport Workers Union Local 1, haven’t had a raise…Read More…
New TWU Contract for Union Tank Car Workers Provides Gains on Wages, Health Insurance, and Time Off
Posted OnNovember 7, 2025 byWorkers at Union Tank Car in Altoona, Pennsylvania overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year contract that provides retroactive pay increases and a nine percent raise through August of 2027. The TWU Rail Division and Local 2017 officers negotiated the contract with Union Tank Car Company. In addition to three percent raises each August, the contract increases shift differential pay for second and third…Read More…
Read the Fall 2025 Express!
Posted OnOctober 31, 2025 byThe latest TWU Express magazine is here with updates from the 27th TWU International Convention and new developments in the Air, Rail, and TUUS Divisions! Read the entire Express below! https://www.twu.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TWU_Xpress_Magazine-Fall-2025w.pdfRead More…
TWU Efforts in Congress Pay Off, Space Force Firefighter Staffing Levels Restored
Posted OnSeptember 30, 2025 byAfter a years-long lobbying effort, the Transport Workers Union International successfully fought to restore our Firefighter staffing levels at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Local 525 and the International led an effort to win jobs back for laid off Firefighters. “This is a great example of the International and Locals locking arms fighting…Read More…
Airport Workers at Westchester County Airport Overwhelmingly Vote to Join the TWU
Posted OnSeptember 23, 2025 byFed up with intentionally low staffing levels and forced overtime shifts, workers at Westchester County Airport voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to join the Transport Workers Union of America, the largest airport workers union in the country. Ramp and Senior Ramp Agents at the county-owned airport have been forced to work at least one and sometimes two…Read More…
FTA Rejects MTA’s Second Flawed Safety Assessment, Threatens to Cut Funding
Posted OnAugust 19, 2025 byThe Federal Transit Administration on Tuesday excoriated NYC’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority for failing, yet again, to submit a safety risk assessment that aims to protect Transport Workers Union members. The FTA pledged to withhold up to 25 percent of federal transit funds to the MTA, compel the MTA to use federal funds to correct safety…Read More…
TWU Calls Out NYC’s Transit Authority For ‘Gross Mismanagement’ and ‘Evil Scheme’
Posted OnJuly 31, 2025 byInternational President John Samuelsen and Local 100 Pres. John Chiarello ruthlessly excoriated New York transit officials Wednesday, for failing to give thousands of workers who were injured on the job their workers’ compensation checks on time. “My most vulnerable members are not being paid, on account of gross mismanagement by the MTA,” Chiarello told the…Read More…
TWU Strongly Opposes Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern Merger
Posted OnJuly 29, 2025 byBillions for Wall Street while workers get shafted The Transport Workers Union of America strongly opposes the planned merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern and urges federal regulators, lawmakers, shippers, and unions to block the deal. “Union Pacific has a shameful safety record and was caught by the federal government trying to…Read More…
A Call to Arms is Coming
Posted OnJuly 26, 2025 byInternational President John Samuelsen and Local 100 President John Chiarello told transit workers in NYC that a contract fight is brewing with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Samuelsen and Chiarello addressed a large group of Local 100 members at the Quill Depot in Manhattan, named after The TWU’s founder and legendary labor leader Michael QuillRead More…