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WASHINGTON, DC—The Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) today urged federal aviation regulators to start holding contract aircraft repair stations, especially foreign-based facilities performing work on U.S. aircraft, to the highest levels of safety. In comments submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would reform third-party repair station […]

WASHINGTON, DC— Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) President Edward Wytkind releases this statement following President Obama’s public remarks from the East Room today: “President Obama couldn’t be more on target today when he laid out his priorities for middle-class job creation and tax relief as Congress considers legislation to avoid the so-called ‘fiscal cliff.’ “In […]

[By Keith Laing of The Hill] President Obama’s reelection is likely to ensure efforts to privatize Amtrak service and cut transportation funding will be unsuccessful. Unsuccessful Republican nominee Mitt Romney had repeatedly pledged to eliminate government funding for Amtrak, and GOP vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) budget would have limited transportation funding to […]

WASHINGTON, DC— Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) President Edward Wytkind issues this statement following the re-election of President Barack Obama: “We congratulate President Obama for his historic re-election. “The American people re-elected a president who offers a vision to expand our middle class, create millions of jobs and ‘nation build at home’ by modernizing and […]

WASHINGTON, DC— Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) President Edward Wytkind issues this statement in support of the announcement made today by the U.S. DOT’s Maritime Administration to invest in Maritime Academies: “Today’s announcement from the Obama Administration that it will invest an additional $2.3 million in America’s six state maritime academies is good news for […]

WASHINGTON, DC—Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) issues this statement in response to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) creation of a labor-management safety alliance comprised of TTD, the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) and 11 airlines: “We are pleased […]

[By Jen DiMascio and Madhu Unnikrishnan in Aviation Week & Space Technology] A bruising battle over a multi-year aviation policy bill may have settled a fight over how airline workers organize, but new fights over the rights of workers to form unions are on the horizon, as the presidential election is proving to be a […]

WASHINGTON, DC—Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), issued the following statement in response to the September jobs report released today: “Transportation workers are seeing their ranks grow steadily under job-creating policies put forth by President Obama. The latest jobs report, in which 114,000 jobs were added last month pushing the unemployment […]

WASHINGTON, DC— The Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) applauds today’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to overturn a lower court ruling that improperly barred nearly 10,000 passenger service agents at American Airlines from voting to decide whether to be represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA). “This is […]

[By Keith Laing of The Hill] Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s election would cause flights to be delayed and a planned upgrade of the national aviation system to be grounded, the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department said Thursday. The union, which has endorsed President Obama’s bid for reelection, said Romney’s budget plans would lead to the […]