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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 ...
Transport Workers Union of America: 1934 125,398 Mass transit, railroad, and airline workers. 2017: TWU: Office and Professional Employees International Union: 1945
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.
1966 New York City transit strike. In 1966, the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) and Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) called a strike action in New York City after the expiration of their contract with the New York City Transit Authority (TA). It was the first strike against the TA; pre-TWU transit strikes in 1905, 1910, 1916, and 1919 ...
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 ...
AmeriFlora '92 was an international horticultural exhibition held in Columbus, Ohio, United States from April 20 to October 12, 1992. Taking place on 88 acres (356,123 m 2) of landscaped grounds at Franklin Park, the exhibition cost $95 million to produce and attracted 5.5 million visitors. The exhibition was billed as the first international ...
Matthew Guinan. 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.
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 ...