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FTA Rejects MTA’s Second Flawed Safety Assessment, Threatens to Cut Funding

  The 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…

TWU Calls Out NYC’s Transit Authority For ‘Gross Mismanagement’ and ‘Evil Scheme’

International 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…

TWU Strongly Opposes Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern Merger

Billions 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…

A Call to Arms is Coming

International 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 Quill