As America’s largest transportation labor federation, the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) represents 37 member unions and millions of workers in every mode of transportation. In both the private and public sectors, TTD is devoted to protecting middle-class jobs, expanding collective bargaining, and ensuring that our transportation and infrastructure operations are safe, secure, and state-of-the-art.
In an era of extreme partisan discord, TTD serves as a unifying voice for the workers who build, operate, maintain, and protect our transportation and infrastructure systems. We counter the influence of the corporate lobby and combat the misguided proposals of special interests that seek to sacrifice good jobs and workers’ rights in the name of profit and ideology.
Since our founding in 1990, we have been dedicated to ensuring that private and public sector transportation unions have a voice in the political arena. We push back on ill-advised proposals and advocate for federal investments that modernize transportation systems, boost our economy, and create middle-class jobs. TTD champions strong and well-enforced collective bargaining and worker protection laws while fighting policies that harm workers and public interest. We work to enact bipartisan reforms that protect workers and the American people.
Above all, TTD recognizes that transportation workers and their unions are stronger and more effective when they are working together. We remain united on a policy agenda focused on defending and creating middle class transportation jobs.
TTD is not a union but rather a federation similar in structure to the AFL-CIO itself. We are proud to be one of several trades departments that were founded by the AFL-CIO, including the Maritime Trades Department, Metal Trades Department, and North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU). The AFL-CIO’s trade departments all advocate for working people who face similar challenges across key industries.
