A broad coalition of transportation labor, environmental, community and passenger advocate leaders launched a new national partnership – Keep America Moving -- to rescue the nation’s financially distressed mass transit systems at a press conference at New York’s Penn Station March 31, 2010.
Founding members of Keep America Moving, including Rev. Jesse Jackson, Transport Workers Union Local 100 President John Samuelsen, ATU International...
Samuelsen: “We will never abandon our members or passengers”
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TWU Local 100 fought pitched battles in the courtroom and in the media this week, to keep our Station Agents working. We won a temporary restraining order on Wednesday, May 5th that blocked the layoffs of 475 Station Agents, only to see the MTA hit back with a memo closing SCA booths and firing 266 of those Agents last Saturday. Those...