The Transport Workers Union, Amalgamated Transit Union and the Reverend Jesse Jackson have formed Save Our Ride, a coalition representing more than 300,000 transit employees across the country, community groups and environmentalists. Save Our Ride aims to raise public awareness about the transit crisis plaguing major American cities from coast to coast by rallying for [...]

In the second of a series of rallies held across the country to ask for flexibility in federal stimulus funds for transit, the TWU, ATU and Reverend Jesse Jackson addressed a crowd of transit workers, the riding public and community groups in Birmingham, Al. on May 12. The rally was held at Linn Park, where [...]

by By Kevin Bogardus,  The Hill
Capitol Hill aides leaving Union Station on their way to work Wednesday will find a Jumbotron screen outside the train station asking them to help the country’s commuters.

The screen, broadcasting text messages from worried subway riders and bus passengers, is part of a campaign by national transit unions [...]

Green Labor Journal
We’ve got a problem.
As elected leaders of America’s two largest transit unions, we’ve seen thousands of our members lose their jobs in communities across the country during the past 18 months.
But the crisis facing America’s mass transit systems isn’t just a problem for us – it’s a problem for everybody.
Why?
·    Family budgets are [...]