Letters To Congress

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 […]

Dear Representative, On behalf of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), I urge you to vote against the Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act (H.R. 3094) when it is considered by the House of Representatives this week.  Despite its misleading title, this bill has nothing to do with “democracy” or “fairness” but instead is intended to […]

The Honorable Patty Murray Co-Chair Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction 448 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC  20510   The Honorable Jeb Hensarling Co-Chair Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction 129 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515   Dear Senator Murray and Representative Hensarling: As you lead the deliberations of the Joint Select […]