"If we do not help the more than 800,000 U.S. federal employees and countless contractors – janitors, service workers, and others – who have been locked out or are working without pay, what will happen to them?”
·Tommy Douglas Conference Center at 10000 New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring, MD.
·With so many people traveling, we often forget the countless transportation workers, who forgo spending the holiday with their families and friends to ensure travelers get to their destination safely and on time.
·ATU Communications is proud to announce that the Union won 16 awards in the National/International Union category of the International Labor Communicators Association (ILCA) 2018 Media competition.
·Amalgamated Transit Union International President Larry Hanley issued the following statement to mark Veterans Day (US) and Remembrance Day (Canada).
·Throughout this politically divisive and bruising Midterm election season, we are proud of the role ATU members across the country played to mobilize transit riders to vote and elect more diverse, pro-transit and pro-worker candidates.
·Amalgamated Transit Union International President Larry Hanley issued the following statement to mark Thanksgiving in Canada.
·Hurricane Florence, the strongest storm to hit the U.S. this year, made landfall in North Carolina and South Carolina and impacted many states on the East Coast.
·As of August 15, 2018 ATU membership has now reached 200,152 members.
·While the ATU has stood by Reverend Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders on many issues over the years, today we are disappointed to see them side with the billionaires who are exploiting drivers, the vast majority of whom are workers of color.
·"Today we celebrate our country’s birthday in hopes that we will find a way to once again be the country our founders fought hard to establish."
·Amalgamated Transit Union International President Larry Hanley released the following statement to mark Canada Day.
·“Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark anti-worker ruling that advances the attack on labor by trying to limit our power to fight. But, in the process, it has already sparked a new generation of union activists.
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