Transport Workers Union (TWU)

Transport Workers Unions need a lot of help in April, 2003. Local 556 is in an agonizingly long negotiation period with Southwest Airlines. The local at American Airlines is being forced to take concessions AND layoffs while management threatens to go into bankruptcy while working behind the scenes to undermine the Railway Labor Act AND get a big handout from federal tax money!

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TWU Local 556 President Melissa Smith is in the center. She is joined by AFL-CIO head Gene Freeland, TWU 556 Administrative Assistant Madeleine Howard, TWU activist Shea Spencer, and Regina Montoya-Coggins campaign director Debra Reed. Taken during the 2000 elections