Jobs to Move America Coalition

Over the past decade, U.S. transit agencies have spent an estimated $50 billion in taxpayer money to buy railcars and buses – a huge investment that should have produced tens of thousands of good American manufacturing jobs. But few of those jobs ever materialized, simply because manufacturing companies have been awarded contracts with minimal consideration […]

WASHINGTON, DC—On this Veterans Day, the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) unites with its 32 member unions to honor those Americans who make sacrifices every day in service to the nation—the active duty military and veterans. Upon coming home or ending their service, these men and women face the challenge of finding good-paying jobs in […]

TTD’s Executive Committee came together Tuesday to rally around an aggressive transportation jobs and investment agenda and to take dead aim at globalization and safety issues. We focused like a laser on the need to counter the toxic agenda of political extremists—who gave us brilliant ideas like sequestration and the government shutdown—as a threat to […]

Transportation Procurements Must Maximize U.S. Job Creation WASHINGTON, DC—The Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) is officially partnering with the Jobs to Move America Coalition, a group that brings together labor and non-labor advocacy groups to pursue rail car and bus procurement policies that boost American manufacturing jobs. The coalition, led by Los Angeles-based LAANE, brings […]

TTD’s Executive Committee has long taken the position that when our government invests in transportation infrastructure and rolling stock, these expenditures must be leveraged to achieve the greatest possible economic impact and U.S. job growth.  For this reason we have consistently and effectively advocated for the inclusion of strong Buy America provisions in federal transportation […]