AFL/CIO President Trumka talks about Amtrak, its struggles and future at the IAM Transportation Confgerence.
Read moreDemocratic presidential hopefuls Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday morning addressed approximately 800 delegates at the Transportation Department’s 2019 Conference. IAM members will be hearing from candidates often during the 2020 election cycle before the membership weighs in on the union’s presidential endorsement. Watch the video feed of both
Read moreLast week, officials and members from TCU/IAM, the Transport Workers Union (TWU) and Unite-HERE banded together to lobby Congress on issues facing our members at Amtrak. Each union focused their meetings on Members of Congress whose districts are near Amtrak onboard service crew bases. For TCU, however, our lobbying efforts ran the full gamut of
Read moreIn the testimony of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), President Larry Willis, he stated TTD’s opposition to the proposed rule on decertification of representation. TTD represents 32 affiliated unions (including TCU) in all modes of transportation. This includes a number of unions whose members work in the aviation and rail sectors, are covered by
Read moreWashington, DC – Larry I. Willis, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), issues this statement in response to the Federal Railroad Administration rejecting a request from Kansas City Southern Railway to conduct safety-sensitive brake tests in Mexico: “We learned yesterday that the Federal Railway Administration (FRA) denied a request by Kansas City Southern
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