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June 5, 2025

News and Media, Press Releases and Statements

Transportation Labor Commends Bipartisan House Support for Job Corps

WASHINGTON — Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), issued the following statement commending the 199 Members of Congress who expressed their support for the Job Corps program in a letter to the Department of Labor (DOL): “We commend the bipartisan coalition of 199 House Members who…
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June 5, 2025

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Federal Judge Puts Freeze on DOL Termination of Job Corps

Reported by Rebecca Rainey for Bloomberg Law. The Trump administration is temporarily barred from shutting down the Job Corps training program, preventing as many as 25,000 young adult students from being displaced, a federal judge ruled. Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr. of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a…
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June 5, 2025

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Industry Lobbyists Pitch Driverless ‘Ghost Trains’ Across America

Reported by James Baratta for American Prospect In railroading, danger is omnipresent. Freight train crews, typically consisting of a conductor and an engineer, bear the awesome responsibility of keeping a critical piece of the supply chain moving. They regularly handle the complex decision-making required to transport goods across some of the most unforgiving regions in…
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June 4, 2025

News and Media, Press Releases and Statements

TTD Applauds Court Order Halting Job Corps Closures

WASHINGTON– Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), issued the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a Temporary Restraining Order preventing the Department of Labor (DOL) from closing Job Corps centers: “Today’s court decision protects the thousands of…
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May 30, 2025

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Transportation Labor Objects to Job Corps Pause, Urges Trump Administration to Reverse Course

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 Department of Labor’s (DOL) announcement that operations of the Job Corps program will be paused by June 30, 2025: “As America’s largest transportation labor federation, we strongly urge the Trump…
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May 29, 2025

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Can US Rail Survive Trump’s Second Term?

Reported by Tiana May for Railway News. The 2024 U.S. presidential election marked a sharp political shift, with Donald Trump returning to the White House and Republicans strengthening their presence in Congress. For the rail industry, this transition has raised pressing questions: What will happen to the momentum built under the Biden administration? Will federally…
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May 23, 2025

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AAR seeks FRA permission to scale back visual track inspections where automated systems are used to find defects

Reported by Bill Stephens for Trains Magazine. The Association of American Railroads has asked the Federal Railroad Administration to allow less frequent visual track inspections in territory where automated track inspection systems are used. “The primary benefit of using automated inspection technologies is earlier detection of track defects enabling railroads to switch from reactive to…
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May 22, 2025

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How to Position Passenger Rail for Federal Funding

Reported by Marybeth Luczak for Railway Age. Navigating passenger rail funding in a new political landscape was the theme of a May 21 session at Railway Interchange 2025. The Railway Supply Institute (RSI), one of the three associations hosting the event, brought together executives from Brightline Holdings, U.S. High Speed Rail Association (USHSR), American Public…
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May 17, 2025

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House bill would provide $80 billion for transit agency operating costs

Reported by Trains Magazine. U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) on Friday introduced a bill that would provide $20 billion annually for the next four years to bolster public transit operating budgets. The Stronger Communities Through Better Transit Act would create a grant program for projects that make “substantial improvements to transit service” by increasing routes…
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May 16, 2025

News and Media, TTD on the Hill

Transportation Labor Supports Bipartisan Public Transit Bill

On the final day of Infrastructure Week, Rep. Hank Johnson introduces legislation to invest $80B in public transit across large cities, small towns, and rural communities to better serve constituents and working families WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the final day of Infrastructure Week, Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure…
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