Letters To Congress

December 20, 2024 The Honorable Chuck Schumer U.S. Senate Majority Leader S–221 The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Mitch McConnellU.S. Senate Minority Leader S–230 The CapitolWashington, DC 20515 The Honorable Mike JohnsonSpeaker of the U.S. House of Representatives H-232, The Capitol U.S. House of RepresentativesWashington, DC 20515 The Honorable Hakeem JeffriesMinority Leader 2267 Rayburn…

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December 20, 2024 The Honorable Mike JohnsonSpeaker of the House418 Cannon House Office BuildingWashington, DC 20515 The Honorable Chuck SchumerSenate Majority Leader322 Hart Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510 The Honorable Hakeem JeffriesHouse Minority Leader2267 Rayburn House Office BuildingWashington, DC 20515 The Honorable Mitch McConnellSenate Minority Leader317 Russell Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510 Dear Speaker Johnson,…

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December 5, 2024 Chairman Bernie SandersSenate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee 428 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingWashington, D.C. 20510 Ranking Member Bill CassidySenate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee  428 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Chairman Sanders and Ranking Member Cassidy: The undersigned organizations represent hundreds of thousands of rail workers and…

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This letter was originally sent to the Senate on November 15 from The Leadership Conference and 141 other national organizations. As of November 21, as reflected below, 148 organizations have signed on. View the PDF of the letter here. Dear Senator, On behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the undersigned…

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November 21, 2024United States SenateWashington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator: The undersigned unions represent millions of public service workers and working families across the country. We urge you to pass the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82) as soon as possible.Over the past four decades, the Social Security Act’s Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset…

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 July 25, 2024 Dear Member of Congress: On behalf of our affiliated unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of airline workers, the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) urges you to support the 8,000 Gate Gourmet inflight catering workers who have been in contract negotiations for over six years. Remaining under the current contract is unsustainable…

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Dear Representative: On behalf of our affiliated unions, the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO urges you to join Representatives Stansbury and DeLuzio in a letter to appropriators advocating for full funding for the Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS) at $8 million, matching the President’s FY25 budget request, and language urging the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)…

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Dear Representative: On behalf of our affiliated unions, representing more than a million railroad and airline workers, the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO urges you to join Representatives Stansbury, Norcross, Pocan, Dingell, and Horsford in a letter to appropriators advocating for at least $16 million in funding for the National Mediation Board (NMB) in the  Fiscal…

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On behalf of our affiliated unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of aviation workers, the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) urges you to join Congressman Chuy Garcia (D-IL) in a letter to House leadership (below) to ask that no change to the statutory pilot retirement age for commercial airline pilots is included in the Federal…

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On behalf of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), and the many maritime workers that we represent, I urge you to sign the bipartisan Dear Colleague letter being circulated by Representatives Joe Courtney (D-CT), Robert Wittman (R-VA), and Trent Kelly (R-MS) requesting full funding for the Maritime Security Program (MSP) at the authorized amount in…

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