NYC Transit Workers Keep City Moving as Fares Strain Riders

Transit workers keep NYC moving — if you can afford to ride

Why is the subway so expensive? I mean, when we had George Washington as president was when I first took the train, and it was a nickel.

POLITICS: Transit workers keep NYC moving — if you can afford to ride

Union big’s trains of thought John Samuelsen. Subway track worker by trade and international president of the Transport Workers Union of America — the biggest airline union in the US with 165,000 transport workers. Samuelsen: “I oversee 100 coast-to-coast unions, including the Caribbean, plus our big transit cities — like 30,000 workers at American Airlines, 34,000 at Southwest Air. Plus NYC, Philadelphia and San Francisco cable cars. “My first …

NYC Transit Workers Keep City Moving as Fares Strain Riders

NewsFinale NewsFinale Journal Union big’s trains of thought John Samuelsen knows transit from the ground up. A subway track worker by trade, he now serves as international president of the Transport Workers Union of America, the nation’s largest airline union, representing 165,000 transportation workers. “I oversee 100 unions from coast to coast, including in the Caribbean,” Samuelsen said, […] The post NYC Transit Workers Keep City Moving as Fa…