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April 8, 2025

News and Media, Press Releases and Statements

TTD Statement on Supreme Court Order to Pause Rehiring of Probationary Federal Workers

WASHINGTON — Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling, pausing a lower court’s order for the Trump Administration to rehire 16,000 probationary federal workers: “As America’s largest transportation labor federation representing thousands of federal workers, we…
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March 28, 2025

News and Media, Press Releases and Statements

TTD Statement on Federal Collective Bargaining Executive Order

WASHINGTON — Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s Executive Order ending collective bargaining rights for approximately 700,000 federal workers: “As America’s largest transportation labor federation representing thousands of federal workers, we condemn this blatant attack on…
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March 14, 2025

News and Media, TTD on the Hill

TTD Supports “American Cargo for American Ships Act”

Today, Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee Ranking Member Salud Carbajal (CA-24) and Chair Mike Ezell (MS-04) introduced the bipartisan “American Cargo for American Ships Act” to strengthen U.S. Cargo preference laws and promote American economic growth. The legislation aims to reduce the ongoing decline of U.S. flagged ships. In 2022, the Maritime Administration (MARAD)…
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March 12, 2025

Letters to the Administration, News and Media, Policy

Rail Labor Urges DOT to Maintain Staffing at FRA

March 11, 2025 The Honorable Sean DuffySecretaryU.S. Department of Transportation1200 New Jersey Ave., SEWashington, DC 20590 RE: Protecting FRA Staffing to Safeguard Rail Workers and Public Safety Dear Secretary Duffy, On behalf of the undersigned rail labor organizations, we write to express our deep concern regarding the February 26th memorandum issued by the U.S. Office…
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March 10, 2025

News and Media, Press Releases and Statements

TTD Congratulates Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer on Senate Confirmation

WASHINGTON — Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), issued this statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as the next Secretary of Labor: “During her time in Congress, Ms. Chavez-DeRemer showed a willingness to work across the aisle, engage with labor unions, and…
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March 7, 2025

News and Media, Press Releases and Statements

DHS Order Ending Union Rights for TSA Workers Will Threaten Aviation Security & Efficiency

WASHINGTON — Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), issued this statement in response to Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem’s announcement ending collective bargaining for more than 40,000 Transportation Security Officers employed by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA): “This is a reckless move by the Homeland Secretary and…
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March 5, 2025

News and Media, TTD on the Hill

TTD Supports an Increase for Air Traffic Controller Funding

Congresswoman Dina Titus today sent a letter to House leadership urging them to include funding in Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations to hire and train air traffic controllers to address current shortages. “On January 29, 2025, American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (ICT) to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) collided…
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February 26, 2025

News and Media, Press Releases and Statements

TTD Statement on Trump Administration’s Federal Workforce Actions

WASHINGTON — Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), issued this statement in response to the Trump Administration’s firings of federal workers and destabilization of essential public services: “As America’s largest transportation labor federation, representing thousands of federal workers who are essential to our nation’s transportation safety…
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February 20, 2025

News and Media, Press Releases and Statements

Transportation Labor Statement On CA High Speed Rail Announcement From DOT Secretary Duffy

WASHINGTON – Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, president and secretary-treasurer of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), released the following statement in response to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s announcement that the Department of Transportation will conduct a review of the California High-Speed Rail project to determine if $4 billion in grant funding from the Federal…
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February 4, 2025

News and Media, Press Releases and Statements

Two Years After East Palestine Derailment, Rail Leaders Still Urge Safety Reforms

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, rail union leaders gathered for a virtual media briefing to call for safety reforms across the freight rail industry on the two-year anniversary of the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. House Transportation Committee Vice Ranking Member Emilia Sykes (D-OH-13), Rail Subcommittee Ranking Member Dina Titus (D-NV-01), and Rail Subcommittee Member…
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