John Samuelsen
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Official account, John Samuelsen, International President of the Transport Workers Union, Industrial Trade Unionist, NYC Subway Trackworker 26 +6 = 1 Saoirse 👍
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#Frontline
Transport Workers must be protected. When employers don't meet their obligation to protect us, workers must fightback to defend our health and safety. When workers fightback we win!!
#CoronavirusPandemic
#PPENow
#Covid19
@ATUComm
Transport workers are the circulatory system that delivers essential workers to the
#frontlines
of the war against
#Covid19
. We embrace our duty, but government has a reciprocal obligation to protect us with
#PPE
and all sensible measures to reduce our exposure
#PPENow
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The TWU sued the
@NYPDnews
in 2011 during Occupy Wall St over efforts to force our Bus Ops to transport arrested protesters. The TWU refused then and is rightfully refusing now.
#BlackLivesMatter
#GeorgeFloyd
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The position of
@transportworker
& the position of
@TWULocal100
since Occupy Wall Street is we don’t transport arrestees. Aside from the politics in play, it’s dangerous for our members. We transport America’s working people, not protestors exercising “constitutional rights.”
If pharmacists don't have to fill birth control prescriptions, than TWU members don't have to drive protest jail buses
http://t.co/KVdM82H2
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.
@NYGovCuomo
alleging anyone but himself is an extortionist is laughable. Just ask NYS County Executives about the convos tying vaccine distribution to pledges of political support for Cuomo, amid the twin Nursing Home and Sexual Misconduct debacles .
@NYSAFLCIO
.
@CentralLaborNYC
My response:
"Sameulson is an extortionist who is trying to undo pension reform. We also understand he is a political supporter of Tish James and she says she may run against the governor, and he wants more benefits in his contract. Everyone gets that"
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@muoiod
There is a technological revolution coming across all transport sectors ,with a huge potential negative impact on public transit workers and service delivery.
@AndrewYang
speaks powerfully in defense of workers, and understands that people come before profits.
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The Transport Workers Union stands with
#Teamsters
General President Sean O’Brien and UPS workers across America, including my neighborhood delivery man Dominic in Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, who busts his ass everyday and deserves a just contract.
@TeamsterSOB
@transportworker
In case you missed yesterday's press event on
#Teamsters
negotiations for a new and historic UPS National Master Agreement, watch below. The aggressive public announcement was convened to deliver a strong message to UPS and elected officials about our historic contract fight.
#1u
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The 100+ Transport Workers Union Aircraft Dispatchers at UPS are prepared to stand in full solidarity supporting
@TeamsterSOB
and
@Teamsters
. UPS planes cannot fly without a dispatch release and
@transportworker
Dispatchers won’t be crossing a
#Teamsters
picket line 👊.
UPS TEAMSTER PRACTICE PICKETS REMAIN RELENTLESS ✊
With just two weeks left before a possible national
#strike
at UPS, rank-and-file
#Teamsters
continue to master their picket line readiness.
#1u
#strikeready
#hotlaborsummer
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Congress enjoys paid sick leave, yet they see fit to deny that very benefit to freight rail workers. Workers cannot rely on political parties, it is literally always us against everyone else, and today's action by the Senate proves it.
@transportworker
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NYers need Tish to run!
@TishJames
would restore competency and real working class politics to the job.
@GovKathyHochul
has pissed off every corner of the Democrat’s base, from LIC-Williamsburg’s kale chip crowd, to the trade unions. Tish beats Hochul if she wants it. Easily.
Tish James struggled to raise money in 2022 when she tried to run against Hochul but you have to imagine she's beginning to think seriously about 2026. She got a boost from the Trump civil trial, has been scandal-free, and is plainly ambitious.
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It’s imperative for
@GovKathyHochul
to quickly oust Larry Schwartz . On every level his presence is detrimental to
@MTA
, his appointment wasn’t about the public good, it was always only about advancing a sordid political agenda. He’s begrimed the MTA immeasurably, He’s Gotta Go.
Gov. Kathy Hochul vowed Thursday to rid the MTA of political interference, hinting that Andrew Cuomo's lieutenant Larry Schwartz will soon be ousted from the transit agency’s board. ($)
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Profiteering is a death scourge in passenger transport. It always results in diminishment of safety & service quality in pursuit of 💰.
@RMTunion
's fightback is inspiring and we're honored that Mick Lynch wears
@TWULocal100
’s logo hat as he fights for all of us.
@transportworker
Rail companies are failing while making profit, says
@RMTunion
’s Mick Lynch.
“Everybody is making profit and doing well out of the railway apart from railway workers and railway passengers.
“It’s perverse.”
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The principle which must guide society's implementation of new technology is to ensure a just transition for transport workers. Absent direct safeguards to protect workers, innovation could easily run amok and kill these solid blue collar jobs.
@TTDAFLCIO
@SenSherrodBrown
New transportation technology should meet 4 key principles:
1) Transparent planning and reporting
2) The technology should be safe and secure
3) Workers should be involved in planning
4) We need strong privacy and cybersecurity standards
@TwuSamuelsen
@TTDAFLCIO
@SenateBanking
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When cops commit blatant crimes, every “good” cop is far better served by their union calling it out and condemning the criminality, rather than trying to justify it. Trust of the police in working America would grow, and right now there is zero trust in many communities
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Instead of .
@MTA
Chair bifurcation,
@NYGovCuomo
should have stuck with the Byford-cation of NYC Transit, there’s no perfect boss but Andy Byford was a real transit service delivery expert, NYC’s loss was .
@TfL
’s gain. Byford should have been elevated in
@MTA
, not run out of town.
Rumors abound that .
@NYGovCuomo
will appoint Larry Schwartz as Chair/CEO of .
@MTA
, if his ALBANY effort at bifurcation fails.
@transportworker
’s Local Unions are not intimidated by threats of Schwartz’ appointment, we’ve no fear. Bad Bosses = an organizers dream.
@TWULocal100
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Right now,
@GovKathyHochul
is attacking
@MTA
TWU commuter rail workers pensions, health benefits, seniority rights, etc. She’s a backstabbing disaster, an electoral nightmare for
@TheDemocrats
, and for clarification,
@transportworker
never endorsed her, we endorsed
@TishJames
.
"Kathy Hochul is an absolute enemy of the Transport Workers Union, and that photo is an anomaly," TWU International President John Samuelsen tells me about the tweet. But he understands Davis needs to maintain a relationship, leading a public sector union.
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NY should have a permanent Fare Holiday. Like Education, Cops and Fire, public transit’s cost should be built into the broader tax base. It’d be a game changer, greening NYC, creating solid Blue Collar transit jobs and it’d put hundreds a year back in
@mta
riders pockets.
NYC needs a Fare Holiday for Memorial Day Week to get people back on the subway! Subway ridership is down 70% and this would be a great way to kick-off a summer recovery.
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Corporate America's true colors exposed yet again: these multi-billion entities aren't just greedy, they're downright malicious.
@BankofAmerica
seeks a society with a permanent underclass of low-wage workers. The necessity of the trade union movement proves itself every day.
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Whether your workplace is deep inside the subway or in the most powerful newsroom in the world, workers have a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to stand up to bosses who enrich themselves off of our hard work.
@nytimes
@transportworker
It is the first major walkout at the New York Times since 1981, and members of the union have said it is the culmination of months of frustration over contract negotiations on a range of issues, particularly compensation.
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While
@transportworker
members put themselves in harm's way to keep this carrier alive during the pandemic,
@amtrak
executives were busy feeding at the taxpayer trough, shamefully gobbling up millions in bonus pay.
@nytimes
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The Transport Workers Union is organized, unified and fighting back against .
@SEPTA
, we’ve been forced to strike before and
@transportworker
Loc 234 will shut Philadelphia down again in defense of our Transit Workers.
Wake Up SEPTA, come to the table with an appropriate offer.
5,000 workers
@SEPTA
have unanimously approved a
@transportworker
Local 234 strike action as soon as November 1, with the full backing of the TWU International. Philadelphia will be shut down if we don't get a fair contract.
@twusamuelsen
#Striketober
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Kelly’s police union story is diminished by his refusal to support the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act, which reverses Janus & grants all public sector workers the right to organize & bargain contracts. Combine this with his Pro-Act refusal & a pattern becomes undeniable.
🚨 Mark Kelly, a possible Dem VP pick, tells HuffPost he'd vote for the PRO Act today if it hit the Senate floor.
Kelly has been a holdout on the pro-union bill.
"Unions loom large in our life and I’m supportive of the PRO Act," he told
@igorbobic
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All vital services, including public transit should be built into the tax base. When paramedics respond, we don't pay before they do CPR. We don't pay cops or firefighters per use & our children don't pay to enter schools. We need safe, reliable Mass Transit with No Fare 👍.
“With ridership hovering around 60% pre-pandemic levels, fare revenue is expected to rise to just 32% of the MTA’s operating budget by 2026 — compared to 44% before COVID-19, the
@NYSComptroller
office concluded in a new report.”
via
@dahvnyc
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This is bigger then London and the UK. Same dynamics exist internationally, many times the bosses even have the same names. The audacity of the
@RMTunion
fightback is inspiring railway and transit workers globally.The RMT speaks truth to power: “If you don’t fight you can’t win”
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Huge personal announcement: After 33 years in NYC's Pension System I've decided to pursue a lifelong dream as a Quality Control Specialist for
@GuinnessIreland
. I leave for Dublin shortly to begin my new life as a Guinness taster. Thank you
@transportworker
for years of support
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@MTA
MetroNorth Railroad has deliberately chosen a path toward
@transportworker
strike action. The TWU will fulfill its obligations under the Railway Labor Act , and then shutdown
@MetroNorth
and NYC’s northern suburbs. Burying your head in the sand will not change this outcome.
Metro-North Railroad train mechanics and cleaners say they’re gearing up for a strike, claiming the MTA isn’t sending “decision makers” to ongoing mediation talks.
But the MTA says there is “absolutely no threat” of a walkout.
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.
@TishJames
is a proven fighter for working families, relentlessly advocating for the average everyday New Yorkers who are largely forgotten by the political class. Tish is the real deal, walking with humility and doing justice.
@transportworker
@NYSAFLCIO
@CentralLaborNYC
I'm proud to earn the support of TWU International for my campaign for governor, the first labor endorsement in this race.
Every day,
@transportworker
’s members work selflessly to support our communities, and I will always fight for our state’s hardworking families.
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NYS’s raid of 145M from the MTA is a huge betrayal of riders and workers in the middle of the system’s worst ever crisis . Put into perspective, 145M could add over 2,700 bus runs, remove every dangerous subway track defect for 10 years and stop unsafe booth closures.
Testimony from
@RachaelFauss
to the MTA Board for their meeting today: Gov. Cuomo’s $145M Raid is a Backdoor Tax on MTA Riders; MTA Must Also Reveal Amount of Dedicated Transit Funds Raided by State in 2020
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Upon becoming involved we immediately sought input from workers. We engaged, we spoke about the positives of the Bill and I listened carefully to worker criticisms. The TWU stands with
#DeliveristasUnidos
.
#DeliveristasUnidos
is opposed to any bill that is pre-negotiated w/out delivery workers’ input—that directly impacts our working conditions. Sectoral bargaining may be a novel approach for
#Deliveristas
, but this bill would sideline rather than empower workers.
@workersjusticep
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Transit workers are not cannon fodder for America's war on
#COVID19
.
@transportworker
was within hours of shutting down Philadelphia,
@PhillyMayor
saved the day. Transit workers must refuse unsafe work!
@AFLCIO
#1u
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Tremendous video by
@UAW
President Shawn Fain, making a rock solid case for 150K autoworkers against the price gouging , profiteering Big Three.
@transportworker
sees these dynamics everyday in the airline industry and we will support
#UAW
strike action in every possible way 👍.
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Missing my Mom today, Theresa, trade-union woman, a Teamster & Machinist, mother of 5 and a wife, up before daybreak, getting oatmeal and hot tea on the table , pushing us out the door, then workin’ her butt off all day, she epitomized feminine grace and beauty. I love you Ma’.
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@embernic
The lack of understanding of the political dynamics across southern Brooklyn is baffling. This is the land of urban Trump supporters.
@JustinBrannan
may be the only Democrat in NYC who could prevail in his district. W/O Justin Brannon, there’d be yet another Republican victory.
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@Marston4ca42
@SouthwestAir
@POTUS
Do you care one iota about
@SouthwestAir
’s constant “disrespect” of its workers, many of whom are people of color? Or the wave of assaults on SWA .
@TWU556
FAs? Would you boycott SWA over worker mistreatment? Or are you only “clear” about your outrage regarding a quip by a pilot?
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Riders and workers of NY’s MTA are far better off with
@NYGovCuomo
scandalously preoccupied. It’s been several weeks of peace, a big improvement upon the relentless micromanaging, bullying and 2nd Fl induced madness that became the new normal
@mta
. It’s addition by subtraction.
Who exactly is leading New York State right now?
As Covid surges, as NY’ers wait for relief funds, as scandal after scandal after scandal consumes all of
@NYGovCuomo
’s time, and a significant amount of the legislature & media’s time & attention?
Who is leading New York State?
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Out on this July 4th in Greenpoint , Brooklyn with
@TWULocal100
Brooklyn Division reps Gary Rosario & Alexander Kemp supporting the hardworking
@transportworker
Bus Operators doing the bus shuttle work for G-Line Track Construction. The TWU moves New York and we move America 🇺🇸.
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This week all have witnessed the absolute necessity and importance of human beings
@mta
in NY, highly skilled
@transportworker
2-person subway crews mass evacuating stranded riders and Bus Operators deftly navigating flooded NYC streets like robots never could
@TWULocal100
Queens Boulevard in Maspeth/Corona is a literal river at the moment. Bus fully flooded driving through, multiple cars stuck in the water. Absolutely insane.
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.
@SouthwestAir
paying out stock dividends leading up to this crisis is akin to hanging with highfalutin pals, spending tons of 💰💰while your house is falling apart, you don't pay the heating bill, and your family has frostbite. That's what lowlifes do. Feel the $LUV
The union for Southwest ground crews says a lot of workers have been working 16- to 18-hour days and some got frostbite in sub-zero temps this past week.
TWU Local 555 President Randy Barnes:
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Congrats to our
@transportworker
Local 234, your militant readiness to shut down .
@SEPTA
in Philadelphia led to the bosses capitulation. You’ve proven that bargaining table success is directly linked to organizational capacity and commitment to conduct successful strike action.
TWU Local 234 wins a Massive victory for 5,000 TWU transit workers at SEPTA in Philadelphia - good raises, parental leave, compensation for the families of members lost to Covid. When workers lock arms and fight back, We Win!
@twusamuelsen
@aflcio
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.
@TishJames
is responsible for this victory, not .
@NYGovCuom
. Tish is a real deal Democrat, not a liar , not a bully, just a humble advocate pursuing public good, never looking to steal others thunder. She is the the Voice and Power protecting average, everyday working people.
Today NY announced a $4.5B settlement with Purdue Pharma for its role in the opioid epidemic.
Countless NYers have suffered as a result of companies putting profit over health & we are committed to holding those responsible for their reprehensible actions.
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NY’s MTA should emerge in a far better place without
@NYGovCuomo
. This is a moment in time for .
@mta
’s board to shake off Albany’s heavy handed direct rule interference and assert independence. Cuomo’s bullying sycophants (think Larry Schwartz)need to be tossed out ASAP as well.
Multiple sources told
@THECITYNY
that the
@NYGovCuomo
plan to reshape
@MTA
leadership could be sunk by his sexual harassment problems.
“His chances of manipulating the legislature just slipped away,” one said.
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Six NYC Transit Workers have perished in the line of duty. They were sent out into a war zone against
#COVID
-19 without
#PPE
These are Line of Duty deaths!!
#Covid_19
#coronavirus
#PPEshortage
#PPENow
Sad we must discuss this, but
#FirstResponders
& city & state essential workers must be given FULL LINE OF DUTY DEATH BENEFITS per their contracts, if they succumb to
#COVID19
. It must be presumed that they contracted it while working for the public, Period.
#coronavirus
#NYC
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Glaring disparity here, across suburban LIRR & MetroNorth service areas cash transactions continue. The proposed COVID-19 MTA service cuts also hit NYC’s working communities disproportionately hard. Efforts at Privatization and dehumanization of NYC’s subway are fully underway.
So THIS is the MTA's long awaited transformation?! Attacking NYC's working poor & young people? Dehumanizing the system & privatizing East Side Access? The MTA is "transforming" the system on the backs of riders,
@TWULocal100
workers and NYC's most vulnerable. Yea, this ain't it.
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An absolute honor for me today in Chicago to present my great friend
@transportworker
Rail Division Director Fightin’ John Feltz from Jersey City with a plaque celebrating his 50 years in the TWU. Fearsome Feltzy is just hitting his stride, he’s got lots of battling still to do.
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AMFA is a shameless joke, bottom-feeding management ass-kissers who have absolutely aid and abet USA airlines efforts to outsource aircraft maintenance work. AMFA never fights to protect AMTs. They’re a pathetic NO-SHOW. Totally Laughable seeing them LIE to their members. A JOKE.
NATIONAL PRESIDENT UPDATE - NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 2023
It is an absolute honor to be representing skilled aircraft maintenance professionals and continuing the unification of these professions under one craft-specific union.
Link For Full Update:
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This expose on professional union busters demonstrates the depravity of American companies. Bosses are being taught to masquerade as social justice fighters while simultaneously trying to bust workers' unions and suppress wages.
@transportworker
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On 9/6/23 at NYC’s Labor Day Parade Breakfast, NY Gov Kathy Hochul stated:
“The fights continue, because people always find ways to short change workers”
Ironically, this is 100 % true of her own
@MTA
Chair Janno Lieber who defrauded millions in wages from commuter rail workers.
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This is awesome !
Workers in Alabama – and all across America – are voting on whether to organize a union in their workplace. It’s a vitally important choice – one that should be made without intimidation or threats by employers.
Every worker should have a free and fair choice to join a union.
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Congratulations to
@transportworker
NYC Transit Workers, winning another solid contract, once again beating back demands to eliminate two person subway train crews. And instead caving to the bosses you’ve flipped the script and dramatically improved retiree health benefits. Bravo
#TWULocal100
E-Board overwhelmingly approved a contract w/ MAJOR Economic & Quality-of-Life Gains!
Solid Annual Raises– $4K in Essential Worker Cash Bonus–Record-Setting 3 months Paid Maternity Leave– NO Increase in Healthcare Costs– Therapy for Children With Autism — and more!
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For years,
@Southwest
executives have disrespected frontline workers, refusing to settle labor contacts, while making record profits and paying shareholders big dividends💰.SWA's business model is predicated upon on "Provocation” of its
@transportworker
workforce. Disgraceful.
While failing to address these operational issues, Southwest Airlines is spending over $400 million on quarterly stock dividends to be paid out to shareholders next month
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The disparate treatment of
@transportworker
NYC Transit Workers
@MTA
Vs
@MetroNorth
@LIRR
commuter rails is grossly inequitable. Inner city transit workers deserve the same right to strike as their suburban counterparts. The same work should = the same treatment. What gives?
Transit workers are looking for the right to strike, and, if passed, newly introduced legislation would make it so they legally could.
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The beautiful life changing power of trade union organizing :
A veteran of 3 UAW elections at Chattanooga starts crying.
UAW won with 73% after 10 years of fighting - sea change moment for American labor movement!
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What an awesome opening day for America’s pastime, Its beautiful in Brooklyn and the Mets already have a better record then those Darth Vader-esque tyrannical Yankees . I feel a great season of redemption coming for us long suffering Mets loyalists 👍.
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With Friends Like
@GovKathyHochul
, NYS’
@MTA
Commuter Rail Workers Don’t Need Enemies. This is an unfortunate truth. Her hand picked
@MTA
CEO, Janno Leiber, defrauded the workforce out of rightful wages, instead of correcting it, Hochul’s doubling down on the SWINDLE. For Shame!
Who'd of thought that wholesale fraud of workers would be so readily accepted by
@NYGov
? Faced with proof that
@metronorth
workers are being swindled by
@MTA
Chair Janno Lieber, it's kinda shocking that
@GovKathyHochul
chooses Fraud over honor.
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The skies have become an incredibly dangerous workplace. There is a full moon atmosphere in the air that was non-existent just a short time ago .
@transportworker
cabin crews are already exhausted, overworked and stressed to the max. This violent madness must be stopped .
@USDOT
These vicious assaults must stop NOW. The TWU International passed a resolution last week calling for an industry-wide, permanent, no-fly list for passengers like this! We're also calling for harsher penalties & preventative measures
@twusamuelsen
@aflcio
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Political appointees can be a particularly destructive “class” of bureaucrat, with seemingly unfettered ability to engage in reckless actions, like triggering a strike
@MetroNorth
for instance, never facing repercussions, always leaving others to face the electoral consequences.
.
@TwuSamuelsen
: Instead of negotiating in good faith, unelected political appointees
@MetroNorth
have created a volatile crisis that will erupt w workers walking off the job upon union release from NMB.
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Los Deliveristas,the largely immigrant workers who keep affluent NY well fed with kimchi tacos and craft beer during COVID deserve way higher levels of economic security and physical protection. Organizing trade unions+Legislative Action is the pathway forward.
@NYCSpeakerCoJo
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Excellent discussion with RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch on the collective struggles facing transport workers on both sides of the Atlantic, including a much appreciated RMT contribution to building the Transport Workers Union strike action plan against
@MetroNorth
railroad 👍.
General Secretary of
@RMTunion
, Mick Lynch and
@TwuSamuelsen
, president of TWU of America, discuss tactics for the forthcoming
@transportworker
strike action at
@MTA
on Metro-North, America’s second biggest commuter Railroad🤝
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The pursuit of profit and irrational austerity are a scourge on passenger transport. Neither advance the Public Good, both inevitability lead to the degradation of service reliability and service quality. Especially for society’s most vulnerable.
Public transport must be for all the public.
Everyone must have the right to turn up and go, and we must maintain a fully staffed railway.
#StaffOurStations
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.
@SouthwestAir
is shafting the living daylights their passengers.
@transportworker
workgroups feel your pain. LUVless SWA has been shafting TWU members forever, raking in gazillions, then chiseling workers at the bargaining table.
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What a pleasure seeing my old friend Chris Lightbourne at
@transportworker
’s Dr. King celebrations. Chris is
@TWULocal100
‘s longtime unsung Director of Member Services, saving jobs everyday, always walking with humility. The Labor Movement needs 1000s more like him 👍.
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Shite happens when the employers drive workers to the brink. These are no ordinary times, inflation is off the charts, the labor market is tight and the bosses better wake up, or things are gonna get way worse for them .
@TTDAFLCIO
@NJAFLCIO
@transportworker
NJ Transit is calling this an "illegal job action initiated this morning by the locomotive engineers’ union."
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JetBlue talks a good game about being a benevolent employer but their actions ( inaction) speak far louder then their words.
@jetblue
needs to cease with their double talk and settle a fair contract with their TWU IFCs Now!!
.
@JetBlue
should recognize the commitment and sacrifice of
@transportworker
, especially through this pandemic. Do the right thing and finalize a contract now!
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@NaveedAJamali
@SouthwestAir
Also, ask when they’re gonna start respecting their .
@transportworker
workforce by settling all our open contracts, ask why they exploited the pandemic by pushing huge concessions under threat of layoffs and ask
@SouthwestAir
what they’ve done to stop the assaults on
@TWU556
FAs.
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.
@southwestair
passengers & workers are paying a steep price for the actions of execs to invest in Wall Street instead of modern technology. Congrats to SWA execs: your disasterous business plan has wrecked the holidays for tens of thousands.
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From small things, big things one day come. In 2014, 130 NYC BikeShare workers stood up and created a livelihood out of a passion and joined the TWU. 9 years later we’ve 1300 workers, a national contract, we’re still raising standards, still organizing 👍.
Great to see
@twulocal320
officers, including President Patrice Delva, show solidarity with
@TwuLocal100
and Local 101 at Family Day along with International President John Samuelsen. The TWU is proud to be the first and only national bikeshare union.
#WeMoveAmerica
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If
@MTA
IG thought frontline workers stole time/materials to build a personal Tesla car charge, Porkony would have ran to the media giving us the brutal lash. But the bosses did it, so she says, eh, no big deal. Now it’s time for the Inspector General herself to be investigated.
MTA supervisor allegedly built personal Tesla charger at work on company dime
@TwuSamuelsen
"“The Tesla charging station didn’t build itself in Linden, yet nothing was done about it.”
@CentralLaborNYC
@MTA
@NYSAFLCIO
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Back to my
@TWULocal100
roots tonight, visiting a track construction job in Coney Island n/o Neptune Ave on the F-Line, with brother Trackworkers, Track Division Chair Carlos Albert and my childhood friend, Track Division Exec Board Officer Dennis McCormick.
@transportworker
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Exciting personal news: Today I begin a 3 month sabbatical to train for the
@slapFIGHTUSA
Championship competition, June 29th in Stockton, California ,representing
@transportworker
, in the over 50 league. It’s an incredible opportunity, let’s hope I don’t get my jaw broken 👊.
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The great Mike Quill learned from Connolly the power of industrial trade unionism. Wall to wall organizing , all workers bearing down their collective power on the boss .That’s where the power is, strength exists in large scale worker unity, not craft worker elitism.
Remembering Michael J. Quill and James Connolly on this
#StPatricksDay
@CentralLaborNYC
@NYSAFLCIO
@POTUS
@RMTLondon
@MickCashRMT_GS
@SIPTU
@TwuSamuelsen
#Ireland
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It’s Mind-Boggling ignorance to hold a Transportation Summit reimagining NYC Transit, yet exclude Workers. Newsflash, if your “reimagining” impacts
@TWULocal100
, it ain’t happening.
@transportworker
runs
@NYCTSubway
, not
@MTA
bosses, not policy wonks, certainly not TECH CEOs.
Join us at the Transportation Summit on 11/17 where
@boingo
CEO Mike Finley will join a panel on reimagining New York’s transit systems!
Check out the agenda & register here:
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We were born battling the Pinkertons in NYC’s subway and quickly moved into universities and utilities and every sector of transport, and are now the biggest airline union America. We still fight & organize along Connolly & Quill’s powerful industrial trade union principles .
At the height of the Great Depression, under the visionary leadership of Michael J. Quill, the TWU was founded 89 years ago today.
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Is anyone truly shocked
@elonmusk
lied to the public for personal gain? He used unsuspecting road users in a dangerous real-time experiment to test his technology.
@transportworker
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What a total joke. The overtime is assigned by
@MTA
to workers, not vice versa. Bosses could stop the OT today, its their choice. And if the NY Post-Empire Center were interested in real waste and fraud they’d deep dive into the thriving MTA contractor-consultant profit swamp 💰
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Congrats
@GovKathyHochul
, a gross violator has been exposed, shockingly, it’s Hochul’s own
@MTA
Chair Janno Lieber, stealing millions in wages via wholesale fraud and running a retribution campaign against
@Metronorth
workers for exercising trade union free speech. GOOD JOB 👍.
.
@GovKathyHochul
signed legislation to support workers and strengthen penalties for wage theft, enhancing protections of employee free speech, and increasing injured workers' compensation📈
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Governor Kathy Hochul Betrays Blue Collar Commuter Rail Workers
@MetroNorth
-EMPIRE REPORT NEW YORK 2023® NEW YORK'S 24/7 NEWS SITE
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The PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act passed by the Senate excludes airline flight crews. The overwhelming female profession of Flight Attendant has been kicked to the curb.
#PUMPAct
@transportworker
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No sickout here, or job action, it’s a workforce that’s shorthanded, exhausted, beaten down & demoralized. NYC DOT keeps heaping an unbearable amount of pressure on SI ferry workers. Fatigue in passenger transport is dangerous, potentially disastrous.
@CentralLaborNYC
@MEBAUNION
It's packed, it's hot, and the 5:30 p.m. boat is delayed here at the SI Ferry, where the schedule was cut back because of sick outs
Mayor Adams was here with transportation, emergency management commissioners
I asked Adams if there was a union sick out - he said he didn't know
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Rumors abound that .
@NYGovCuomo
will appoint Larry Schwartz as Chair/CEO of .
@MTA
, if his ALBANY effort at bifurcation fails.
@transportworker
’s Local Unions are not intimidated by threats of Schwartz’ appointment, we’ve no fear. Bad Bosses = an organizers dream.
@TWULocal100
This heralded
@MTA
transformation has been a total joke, now it’s pretty clear that the goal was to Privatize, Undermine,Harass the unionized workers who kept this system running during the 2017 collapse of service reliability and state of good repair, and the 2020-21 Pandemic.
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The article refers to potential conflicts of interest, but nobody ever cites COI when
@mta
’s board is stacked with lobbyists reliant on NYS to earn a living. Suddenly when workers might get a “voting voice” there’s negative yapping. Huge, Typical Hypocrisy
.
@TWULocal100
New: Mayor Adams eyes Transport Workers Union President John Samuelsen for MTA board seat w/
@michaelgartland
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During the bleakest, coldest days of COVID-19 , our awesome
@transportworker
Local 101 workforce helped keep NY moving … and well heated. TWU 101 , yet another group of unsung trade-union heroes of the pandemic, standing up for NY’s working communities .
@CentralLaborNYC
This is who keeps America moving: highly skilled transportation workers like this NY-based crew of gas line mechanics. The pandemic may have made it crystal clear, but these workers have been
#EssentialAlways
.
@transportworker
@USDOT
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The US DOT doesn’t recognize state laws that legalize the use of cannabis, so if you’re in the TWU don’t do it , even though it frequently appears as if the bosses are making decisions like they’ve been all doped up since the ‘90s.
Weed is now legal in New York — but tens of thousands of government employees in the state can’t smoke the devil’s lettuce if they want to keep their jobs.
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Super wealthy Manhattanites’ writing their dream manifesto for
@TWULocal100
concession demands, What a total joke.
@transportworker
NYC Transit Workers don’t even know who you are, But thank you for very articulately reinforcing the “ Us Vs Them” reality of this contract fight.
Labor and the MTA must work together to modernize and improve public transit for all New Yorkers. Our CEO Kathy Wylde published a piece with
@cbcny
’s
@andrewsrein
&
@RegionalPlan
’s
@tkwrpa
on the innovation urgency facing the agency and its labor unions.🚆
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Totally agree with this statement, it’s been proven true time and time again. There is tremendous power in workers coming together, Organizing into trade unions, engaging in worker led collective bargaining, with worker developed contract demands. This advances livelihoods.
The major gains for workers in this country have been achieved by workers coming together in collective action - like through strikes. Nothing we can do legislatively or cooperatively will ever do as much as the power of collective action. Period.
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Transport Workers hear all kinds of niceties from the bosses, but "thank yous" aren't sufficient. Transport sector employers like NY's
@MTA
must show admiration/respect through
#hazardpay
. Actions speak louder than words
@ny1
#CoronavirusPandemic
#Covid_19
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Southwest Airlines CEO
@gary_kelly
is bragging about not cutting wages/benefits for workers during the pandemic?
What a joke.
He spent the past year trying to break the TWU's contracts with Southwest and threatened thousands of layoffs when we didn't roll over.
.
@Gary_Kelly
on relief package: “I think keeping people employed and just getting us through the trough of this pandemic so that we can all live to fight another day is absolutely critical. I think doing too little in a situation like this…has a far greater disastrous outcome.”
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Pursuit of profit in passenger transport is detrimental to riders and workers, and often dangerous. Quality of service and state of good repair diminish while workers’ livelihoods are non-stop attacked. Train bosses loyalty goes to the investors not the people
@transportworker
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10 years later, still an aching heart. I’m forever thankful to Bob, he guided my presidential victory in 2009
@TWULocal100
, came to NYC & stood with our new leadership repeatedly. He imparted on us the greatest wisdom ever for trade unionists- If you don’t fight back can’t win.
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NYS
@MTA
Chair Janno Lieber DEFRAUDED 💰wages from thousands of commuter rail workers.
@GovKathyHochul
refuses to correct this injustice. Instead of protecting
@MetroNorth
workers, she has declared allegiance to the FRAUD. So much for the hollow pro-worker speeches.
@NYSAFLCIO
New York
@GovKathyHochul
's political appointee Janno Lieber is keynoting
@cityAndStateNY
's event on transportation. Will he address his defrauding of wages from
@MetroNorth
workers or shady stake in a Manhattan casino bid? 🤔
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The great-truth teller:
@AMFANational
was powerless to beat Southwest and maintain AMT scope into Hawaii. The work is now outsourced and AMFA agreed to it. So they’re either weak, or sellouts, or both.
@transportworker
protected and increased all our Scope. Strength in Unity 👍.
.
@AMFANational
exposed another one of its many forthcoming failures in negotiations in a self written article by Bret in 2019… “GROUNDED: What’s Really Behind The Delay In Southwest Airlines Flights To Hawaii” by AMFA National
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Absent more transit service,
@MTA
will fail to meet New Yorkers’ needs as they implement congestion pricing.
The “Get Congestion Pricing Right” proposal understands that.
NY can begin to make public transit a real alternative by investing in frequent, reliable & free buses.
Congestion pricing is set to start this summer and NYers deserve an excellent public transit alternative.
Today, we launch a campaign to invest $90M for more frequent, reliable, and affordable bus service across NYC.
Ask your state reps to support this:
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The slanderous opponents of the Central Park Carriages are insane. They tweet that I’m an animal abuser, when in fact I’m an animal lover. But I do despise the pompous social liberals who’ve invaded NYC, not giving a shite about workers, only about they’re faux-pious agendas.
@TWULocal100
@NYCCouncil
@ebottcher
@BobHoldenNYC
In case you missed it the first time. We aren’t going away. The world is changing. It’s moving to a different level of consciousness. You don’t even understand what that means. It’s beautiful on this side.
#banhorsecarriagesnyc
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Robots can’t compete with Humans in public transit . Robots can’t deviate from the script,they can’t compare with Human operators utilizing their God given instincts and street smarts.Workers are the single greatest asset in public transit service delivery. Robots are not heroes.
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Corporatization of public transport is ALWAYS toxic. Pursuit of Profit + railroading leads to negative outcomes every time, triggering degradation of safety & service, or wage & benefit depression, usually both. A total shafting for all working families.
@KeolisBoston
@MBTA
.
@transportworker
@twulocal2054
are fired up & taking on
@KeolisBoston
. Keolis rail workers are the lowest paid in the Northeast. Hey,
@MassDems
@MBTA
, support blue-collar
#Boston
, not corporate French carpetbaggers
@TwuSamuelsen
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A rotten boss is the best worker organizer and
@MetroNorth
,
@MTA
and
@NYGov
have repeatedly demonstrated their highly evolved, creepy “rotten boss” organizing skills to
@transportworker
commuter rail workers in NY & CT over the last several months. Newsflash- We Won’t Be Broken.
.
@MTA
@MetroNorth
has launched a vicious attack on its blue-collar workers in
@twu2001_2055
looking to cause serious economic damage with draconian contract demands. The TWU has seen this movie before, we will fightback against ALL who harm us.
@twusamuelsen
@GovKathyHochul
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@transportworker
power will soon be on display
@MetroNorth
where
@MTA
is rapidly cascading toward a shutdown via chronic bad faith bargaining disease & a pathological lust to cheat it’s workers.
Full blown Strike Action will be the TWU’s response & only the bosses are to blame.
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Fauxgressive deBlasio was an epic failure for workers during 8 years as NYC Mayor. He continually sided with the “donor class” against blue collar NY, he screwed nearly every union he came across, he is among the least fit individuals interested in the job. What a total joke.
Ex-NYC mayor Bill de Blasio lobbying for Joe Biden to make him Labor secretary
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Question of the Day:
Will our .
@transportworker
crew member be disciplined for missing work after being assaulted ? Will JetBlue Demand a DRs note? It’s entirely within the realm of possibility, .
@JetBlue
is not the benevolent employer it pretends to be. It’s the total opposite.
These vicious assaults must stop NOW. The TWU International passed a resolution last week calling for an industry-wide, permanent, no-fly list for passengers like this! We're also calling for harsher penalties & preventative measures
@twusamuelsen
@aflcio
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Excellent meetings with our allies
#CGT
France on amplifying
@transportworker
’s fight for fair wages against
@groupekeolis
@KeolisBoston
on
@MBTA
’s commuter rails in Boston. The TWU will not stop fighting until we win the wages our members deserve .
two days in Paris with the TWU
@TwuSamuelsen
to discuss with the CGT ratp, keolis and sncf. we have obtained a dialogue with the management of the
@Keolis
group regarding the conflict in Boston. We will soon launch a joint press release to denounce the practices of this company.
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Cheers to Michigan’s Democrats 👍. Right to Work is a scourge on working families. Repealing insidious pro-corporation RTW laws is the exact kind of pursuit Democrats should be concentrating on. Laser focus on economic security for average everyday Americans is the path forward.
BREAKING: Michigan is now one step away from repealing the state’s union-busting “Right to Work” law.
The Democrat-led house voted 56-53 to repeal the law, which the GOP jammed through in 2012.
The repeal heads to the Senate, which will finish off a law meant to defund unions.
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