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Membership (US records; ×1000)[1] Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) is a United States labor union that was founded in 1934 by subway workers in New York City, then expanded to represent transit employees in other cities, primarily in the eastern U.S. This article discusses the parent union and its largest local, Local 100, which ...
John Samuelsen. John Samuelsen (born 1967 or 1968) is an American labor union leader. Born in Brooklyn, Samuelsen became a track worker on the New York Subway and joined the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) in 1993. In 2009, he was elected president of the union's Local 100, in which role he negotiated an agreement covering 38,000 ...
Parties. Pan Am. Transport Workers Union of America. The 1985 Pan Am strike was a labor strike involving several thousand workers, all members of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), at Pan American World Airways. The strike began on February 28 and ended one month later on March 28. It involved roughly 19,000 workers.
26. Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) Total membership: 134,022. Description: Mass transit, ... (OLMS) union reports under Schedule 13 which tallies total union members. The union had to ...
Mike Quill. Michael Joseph " Red Mike " Quill (September 18, 1905 – January 28, 1966) was one of the founders of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), a union founded by subway workers in New York City that expanded to represent employees in other forms of transit. He served as the President of the TWU for most of the first thirty ...
Matthew "Ted" Guinan (October 14, 1910 – March 22, 1995) was an Irish labor organizer who was the cofounder and served as the second president of Transport Workers Union of America (TWU). Born in County Offaly, Ireland, he immigrated in 1929. He took a job as a trolley operator in 1933. In 1943, after six years as an unpaid volunteer ...
Michael O'Brien (unionist) Michael T. O'Brien (born 1949 or 1950) is an American former labor union leader. O'Brien worked as a school bus driver in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania from 1972, joining the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU). He held various positions in his local union before becoming its president.
John F. O'Donnell. John F. O'Donnell (died 1993) was an Irish-born 20th-century American "leading labor lawyer" who represented the national Transport Workers Union (TWU) (now Transport Workers Union of America) and American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and also "played a central role in New York City 's transit strikes" from the 1930s to the ...