TTD in the news

Submitted by the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association to The Islands’ Sounder America’s largest transportation labor federation, the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, has named the need for competitive wages and full collective bargaining rights to resolve the Washington State Ferry crisis as one of its six top national priorities. In a joint statement outlining…

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Reported by RT & S Railway Age and Railway Track & Structures on Nov. 5-6 returned to Chicago for our second-annual in-person Women in Rail Conference featuring trailblazing women and their allies, who are influencing today’s freight, passenger and transit rail industry. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy sat down with RT&S’s Jennifer McLawhorn…

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Reported by San Juan Islander America’s largest transportation labor federation, the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO (TTD), has named the need for competitive wages and full collective bargaining rights to resolve the Washington State Ferry crisis  one of its six top national priorities. In a joint statement outlining policy goals for the next Congress…

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Reported by America’s Work Force Union Podcast Greg Regan, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to discuss funding announcements at the state and federal level to help modernize and improve port operations across the country. Recently, the Biden Administration announced $3 billion in grants for ports. Regan…

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Reported by Dan Zukowski for Smart Cities Dive In just four years, trains traveling nearly 200 mph could whoosh passengers between the entertainment capital of Las Vegas and the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. “When that starts to happen, people all across the country will say, ‘Why can’t we have this closer to where…

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Reported by AJ Hess for Fast Company From Maine to Texas, 45,000 dockworkers went on strike Tuesday after the International Longshoremen’s Association’s (ILA) contract with the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) expired. The two sides had reached a stalemate over pay, but also the union wanted a guarantee that technology would not be used to replace them.…

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Reported by Marybeth Luczak for Railway Age The Association of American Railroads (AAR), on behalf of its members, “requests relief required” to participate in the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS) Program, the FRA reported in the Federal Register’s Oct. 3 edition. All Class I railroads, through the AAR, committed to…

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Reported by Ted Mann for Bloomberg First it was the railroads. Then the autoworkers. Then the machinists on the airliner production line.If Joe Biden thought planes, trains and automobiles was enough labor strife for one presidency, the longshoremen of the United States would like a word. The fences are mostly mended between the Biden administration…

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Reported by Mark Gruenberg for People’s World Tens of thousands of East and Gulf Coast dockworkers shut down major American Ports at midnight Tuesday, Oct. 1 when they walked off the job, determined to fight for decent wages and to force their bosses to discuss automation. Picket lines from the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) went…

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Reported by America’s Work Force Radio Greg Regan, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to speak about an Artificial Intelligence Summit with Microsoft, high-speed rail projects and the Department of Labor’s Century of Service Honor Roll of American Labor Organizations. Regan spoke about an AI Labor Summit between…

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