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Honoring Mike Quill and the TWU’s Rich History: Convention Day Four Recap
Posted OnSeptember 18, 2025 byThe final day of the 27th Transport Workers Union Convention in Las Vegas concluded with a homage to the TWU’s historical roots and founder Mike Quill – who was born 120 years ago today. TWU International President John Samuelsen told delegates that Quill was a fierce advocate for racial equality and spent years traveling…Read More…
A Spotlight on Safety: Convention Day 3 Recap
Posted OnSeptember 17, 2025 byWorkplace 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…Read More…
Fort Bend Transit Operators, Facing Appalling Working Conditions, Vote to Join the TWU
Posted OnSeptember 5, 2025 byBus and Van Operators working for Fort Bend Transit in Rosenberg, Texas overwhelmingly voted to join the Transport Workers Union of America on Friday – sending a strong message to the operator Transdev that a complete lack of respect for workers is unacceptable. “Transdev forces drivers to work without proper bathroom breaks, disciplines and fires…Read More…
New Bill Would Fix Federal Transit Funding, Enable Spending on Operations
Posted OnAugust 25, 2025 byA new bill introduced by Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) would fix federal funding rules for transit and enable funds to be spent on transit operations instead of being restricted to capital projects – a top priority for the Transport Workers Union in next year’s surface transportation reauthorization bill. “This bill fixes a critical problem for transit workers…Read More…
Waymo Testing in NYC is a Danger to the Traveling Public and Transit Workers
Posted OnAugust 22, 2025 byThe Transport Workers Union strongly opposes the testing of autonomous vehicles from Waymo on New York City streets – the first step of a push from big tech to eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs without regard for safety – all just to make big tech bros even richer. “New Yorkers be warned, Waymo will turn…Read More…
TWU Tech Newsletter: A Mixed Bag of AV Developments
Posted OnAugust 21, 2025 byThis is the monthly edition of the Transport Workers Union’s Transportation Technology Newsletter. We aim to inform and educate our members, the labor movement, the public and policymakers about developments in transportation technology – and what the TWU is doing to ensure that new technology doesn’t undermine safety or harm the livelihoods of hard-working blue-collar…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…
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…
TWU wants tax deduction for all workers
Posted OnJuly 24, 2025 byCongress granted hourly workers a new tax benefit, but the language is flawed. It inadvertently excludes millions of workers, including airline and railroad employees. The TWU is leading the charge to fix that.Read More…