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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. 1985 Pan Am strike - Wikipedia

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    TWU was seeking a 14 percent wage increase, which had been frozen since 1982, and additional guarantees regarding job security. Additionally, TWU was opposed to reduction in benefits, a new two-tier pay scale, the addition of more part-time workers, and other changes the company was trying to make.

  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. Texas Woman's University - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .twu .edu. Texas Woman's University ( TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States.

  6. Transport Workers' Union of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The TWU argued that the airline’s actions contravened the Fair Work Act, while Qantas claimed it had to make the cuts to ensure the company's survival during the pandemic. In July 2021, the Federal Court of Australia ruled in favour of the TWU, with Qantas losing an appeal in May 2022, before the case moved to the High Court of Australia in ...

  7. New York City Transit Authority - Wikipedia

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    63 SIR cars [1] The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, [2] or simply Transit, [3] and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City. Part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the busiest and largest ...

  8. Uniformed services pay grades of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Pay grades are divided into three groups: [1] enlisted (E), warrant officer (W), and officer (O). Enlisted pay grades begin at E-1 and end at E-9; warrant officer pay grades originate at W-1 and terminate at W-5; and officer pay grades start at O-1 and finish at O-10. [a] Not all of the uniformed services use all of the grades; for example, the ...

  9. Telecommunications Employees and Staff Association - Wikipedia

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    In October 2017, TESA along with the Mauritius Telecom Employees Association (MTEA) and the Telecommunications Workers Union (TWU), signed a new collective agreement with Mauritius Telecom for the period 2016-20. The agreement included salary increases of up to 10% backdated to July 2016 and improvements in annual leave entitlements.