America’s Fighting Democratic Union
The Transit, Universities, Utilities, and Services Division (TUUS) is the union’s largest, representing bus and train operators, mechanics, engineers, supervisors, cleaners, ticket agents and other titles at some of the nation’s busiest public transit systems, including MTA (New York), SEPTA (Philadelphia), MUNI (San Francisco), COTA (Columbus), METRO (Houston), NICE (Long Island), Miami-Dade County Transit, and others.
This dynamic division also represents school bus drivers, para-transit and tour bus operators, as well as operations and maintenance workers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Brooklyn’s National Grid, Columbia University, Julliard, Barnard College, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and in cities, towns, and municipalities around the country. The division spans both public and private employers, negotiating and administering many of the industry’s leading contracts, and setting the standard for 21st-century organizing, with a successful effort to unionize bikeshare workers in Boston, Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C.
For individual contract information, please visit the local website or contact your local.
TUUS Division Leadership Team
Willie Brown
TUUS Division Director
Jose Cruz
International Representative
Cassandra Gilbert
International Representative
Jeffrey Mitchell
International Representative
Christina Scott
International Representative
Transit Updates
Scholarship Winners Announced
The Transport Workers Union has conducted its annual scholarship drawing, and 32 winners have been randomly selected for a monetary award, International Executive Vice President Alex Garcia announced today, May 7, 2026.
The winners will receive a combined $112,000 to help pay for college. Recipients of the TWU’s Michael J. Quill scholarship will each get $4,800 over four years of their continuing education, totaling $72,000. Another $40,000 in scholarships is being provided by four sponsors.
The list of winners is here: scholarship info
Read MoreTWU Activists Takes the Hill
More than 150 TWU activists and officers lobbied on Capitol Hill on May 5 to build support for federal legislation that would benefit union members and their families – including a bill that would allow all overtime earners to pay less in federal income taxes.
This is a top priority for us,” TWU International President John Samuelsen said. “We are laser-focused on the economic security of our members, and this legislation would save working families thousands of dollars a year.”
Read MoreRead the Spring 2026 Express!
Read about Amtrak executive bonus payments being redirected to workers, the Transit Division tackling technology, the new Local 578 contract – and more.
Other features: The TWU’s charitable tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the TWU member who responds to calls of stray dogs, trespassing raccoons, coyote pups – and even urban alligators.
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