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November 7, 2012

Press Releases and Statements

Transportation Workers Part of Historic Mobilization to Re-Elect President Obama, Put America to Work

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…
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October 12, 2012

Press Releases and Statements

Obama Maritime Academy Investments Ensure Properly Trained Mariners

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…
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October 11, 2012

Press Releases and Statements

TTD Joins OSHA Safety Panel to Reduce Injuries for Aviation Ground Workers

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…
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October 8, 2012

TTD in the news

Aviation Week-Obama, Romney at Odds Over Approach to Labor

[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…
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October 5, 2012

Press Releases and Statements

Obama Administration Focus on Middle-Class Job Creation Moving Country Forward

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…
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October 4, 2012

Press Releases and Statements

Passenger Service Agents at American Airlines Must Get Their Day at the Polls

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…
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October 4, 2012

TTD in the news

The Hill-Transportation union: Romney would ‘permanently delay’ US aviation system

[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…
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September 14, 2012

TTD in the news

Politico Pro Transport—Amtrak and White House Transit Forum

[By Politico Pro Transport reporters in September: Kathryn Wolfe, Jessica Myers, Adam Snider and Burgess Everett] Sept. 13, 2012 WHITE HOUSE FORUM: Top transportation leaders, including Secretary Ray LaHood and FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff, huddled yesterday for a White House forum on job creation and transit’s impact on communities. AFL-CIO TTD’s Ed Wytkind was at…
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September 12, 2012

TTD in the news

CQToday—GOP Critics of Amtrak Seize on New Report Questioning Efficiency of Service

[By Nathan Hurst, CQToday] Private companies are doing a better job than Amtrak at cutting costs on regional rail transit service, according to a new House committee staff report that Republicans are citing to bolster arguments for a larger private sector role in operating passenger rail services. Agencies running state-supported commuter rail operations around the…
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September 4, 2012

Election, General, Maritime, Press Releases and Statements, Rail, Surface Transportation, Transit

10 Things You Should Know About President Obama's Transportation Accomplishments

The Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), issues “10 Things You Should Know” as the Democratic National Convention kicks off today with a platform of how to Move America Forward. There is no sharper contrast in this presidential election than in the value the President and his challenger, Gov. Mitt Romney, place on transportation and infrastructure…
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