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TWU Must Fight for Safety

Posted 11/27/20

Editor's note: An edited version of this letter to Transport Workers Union of America President John Samuelsen is published here at its author's request.

This past week the MTA laid out draconian plans to cut service dramatically on the subways and buses if it does not receive $12 billion in funding from the federal government. While President-Elect Biden is pro-mass transit, we still have a high hurdle with the U.S. Senate. Even if the Democrats held both chambers of Congress and the White House, it doesn't guarantee we would get the full $12 billion to get us out of the hole.

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