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  2. Transport Workers Union of America - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. 1980 New York City transit strike - Wikipedia

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    A 1980 transit strike in New York City halted service on the New York City Transit Authority (a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority) for the first time since 1966. Around 33,000 members of Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 walked off their jobs on April 1, 1980, in a strike with the goal of increasing the wage for ...

  4. 2005 New York City transit strike - Wikipedia

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    A closed entrance to the 45th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The 2005 New York City transit strike, held from December 20 through 22, 2005, was the third strike ever by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 against New York City's Transit Authority and involved between 32,000 and 34,000 strikers. In December 2005, the TWU Local 100 ...

  5. Southwest reaches a labor agreement with flight attendants ...

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    The attendants are represented by Transport Workers Union Local 556, which will hold a ratification vote. The union's executive board approved the deal. The union's president, Lyn Montgomery, said ...

  6. Southwest Airlines reaches tentative agreement with transport ...

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    The workers will now earn $36.72 per hour, higher than the hourly wages at United Airlines Holdings and Delta Air Lines Inc, based on the tentative agreement uploaded on Transport Workers Union ...

  7. List of labor unions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Transport Workers Union of America: 1934 125,398 Mass transit, railroad, and airline workers. Office and Professional Employees International Union: 1945 105,000 White-collar workers in the public and private sector. OPEIU: National Rural Letter Carriers' Association: 1903 104,717 United States Postal Service mail delivery workers in rural areas.

  8. Flight attendants at Southwest Airlines reject a contract ...

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    DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines flight attendants have voted down a contract offer reached by negotiators for the airline and the union. The Transport Workers Union Local 556 said Friday that ...

  9. New York City Transit Authority - Wikipedia

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    Employees of the New York City Transit Authority assigned to the New York City Subway and in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx are members of the Transport Workers Union of America Local 100, with Queens and Staten Island bus personnel represented by various Amalgamated Transit Union locals. In 1949, the Transport Workers Union and the Board ...