Letters To Congress

Dear Representative: On behalf of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), I urge you to support H.R. 4348, the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012, Part II when it is considered on the House floor later today. We have long maintained that the reauthorization of surface transportation programs is among the most important jobs legislation […]

Dear Representative: Later today, the House of Representatives will vote on a resolution proposed by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan establishing the budget for Fiscal Year 2013 (H. Con. Res. 112).  I urge you to oppose this resolution as it would deal a devastating blow to our transportation system and its workers. This Republican budget […]

Dear Senator: The Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) strongly supports passage of a surface transportation reauthorization (S. 1813) that will put millions of Americans to work building, operating and modernizing our nation’s transit systems, rail network, highways and bridges.  Today, the Senate will begin to consider dozens of amendments, many of them unrelated to transportation. […]

Dear Representative: On behalf of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), I write to express our opposition to the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act (H.R. 7) and urge you to vote against it in its current form. We do not take this position lightly and instead do so with great regret that H.R. 7 […]

Dear Senator: On behalf of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), I urge you to vote for cloture on the Motion to Proceed on S. 1813, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21).  After significant delay and eight extensions of the surface transportation program, now is the time to pass this critically […]

Dear Representative: As the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee continues to consider H.R. 7, I urge you to support amendment #64 offered by Rep. Peter DeFazio that would remove heavy-handed transit privatization mandates included in the bill.  As drafted, H.R. 7 would cast aside decades of bipartisan policy that has left privatization decisions to local […]

Dear Representative, On behalf of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), I urge you to vote in favor of Rep. Russ Carnahan’s amendment (#60) to provide transit authorities with targeted and temporary flexibility to use some federal funds for operating costs.  This amendment is identical to the Local Flexibility for Transit Assistance Act (H.R. 3200), […]

Dear Representative, I am writing to urge a YES vote on the Carnahan amendment to H.R. 7 that would stop the firing of more than 2,000 Amtrak workers that provide food and beverage service to millions of passengers nationwide.  This amendment would remove a heavy handed mandate tucked away in the bill that forces Amtrak […]

Dear Representative, On behalf of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) I urge you to cosponsor the Airline First Responder Workplace Fairness Act (H.R. 3824). This legislation will implement important workplace protections for our nation’s flight attendants and improve flight safety. Fatigue is of paramount concern for workers in the aviation industry. In fact, the […]

Dear Representative: On behalf of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), I urge you to cosponsor the Invest in American Jobs Act of 2011 (H.R. 3533), introduced by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Nick Rahall.  This important legislation creates strong Buy America standards that will ensure that investments in our nation’s transportation infrastructure will […]