This 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…
Applications for the 2026 Michael J. Quill Scholarship are now being accepted. Winners will receive fifteen (15) college-bound dependents of TWU members a scholarship worth $4800.00. This scholarship will be paid out each year in the amount of $1200.00 to winners who continue to be eligible over their four (4) year college course. The scholarship application…
The TWU honored Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. today through action: packaging and delivering boxes of supplies for the homeless in Miami.
Community service is important,” TWU International Administrative Vice President Curtis Tate said. “As Dr King said, it’s about service. It’s about giving back. It’s about uplifting each other. And at the TWU, we strongly believe in that.”
Read how the TWU is pushing to get the overtime tax deduction extended to all members, along with updates from all divisions, including how the TWU regained firefighter jobs at Cape Canaveral and a new freight rail contract in Pennsylvania. Also, the deployment of a self-driving bus at a Texas bus depot highlights the job threat posed by increasing automation.