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Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) is a United States labor union that was founded in 1934 by subway workers in New York City, then expanded to represent transit employees in other cities, primarily in the eastern U.S. This article discusses the parent union and its largest local, Local 100, which represents the transport workers of New ...
John Samuelsen (born 1967 or 1968) is an American labor union leader. Born in Brooklyn, Samuelsen became a track worker on the New York Subway and joined the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) in 1993. In 2009, he was elected president of the union's Local 100, in which role he negotiated an agreement covering 38,000 workers. [1] [2] [3]
Around 33,000 members of Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 walked off their jobs on April 1, 1980, in a strike with the goal of increasing the wage for contracted workers. All subway and bus lines in the five boroughs of New York City were brought to a complete standstill for twelve days. The strike was resolved on April 11.
The attack on the conductor happened around 3:40 a.m. as a southbound A train was pulling into a station in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, Transportation Workers Union Local 100 said.
Republic Airways, TWU Local 540 Dispatchers Reach Tentative Contract Agreement INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Republic Airways Holdings Inc. (NAS: RJET) today announced that it has reached a ...
In 1966, the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) and Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) called a strike action in New York City after the expiration of their contract with the New York City Transit Authority (TA). It was the first strike against the TA; pre-TWU transit strikes in 1905, 1910, 1916, and 1919 against the then-private transit ...
TWU Local 556 President Lyn Montgomery joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss workplace conditions for flight attendants at Southwest Airlines, technological failures, alcohol on planes, health ...
In 1937, husband John Markey got a job as educational director of the Transportation Workers Union (TWU), a CIO member headed by Mike Quill. In the summers of 1938 and 1939, Page taught at the Highlander Folk School in Grundy County, Tennessee. [2] [6]