|
The Transportation Trades Department, AFL–CIO (TTD) is a constitutionally mandated department of the AFL–CIO. It was founded in February 1990〔Abramson, Howard S. "AFL-CIO Creates Transport Trades Unit." ''Journal of Commerce.'' November 17, 1989.〕 to provide AFL-CIO-affiliated unions whose members work in the transportation industry or who build transportation infrastructure a unified policy-making voice on transportation issues.〔Abruzzese, Leo. "Union Leaders Plan Transport Labor Group." ''Journal of Commerce.'' September 26, 1989.〕 The TTD had 33 member unions as of August 2013.〔("TTD Member Unions." Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO. No date. ) Accessed 2009-11-18.〕 The TTD is divided into five sections, each of which covers a different area of transportation: Railroads, trucking, aviation, mass transit, and maritime transportation.〔 Each section is headed by a president of a union in that transportation sector.〔 By 2014, many maritime unions - who used to be members of the Maritime Trades Department, are now members of the TTD. ==Formation== Efforts to create a department within the AFL-CIO which united all transportation unions began in the 1960s.〔Abrams, Alan. "Labor Pains Year In Review: Turbulence Rocks Transport Unions." ''Journal of Commerce.'' September 3, 1991.〕 The effort received a boost two decades later when Richard I. Kilroy, President of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, and James Kennedy, President of the Transportation Communication Union, began advocating for a new, unified transportation trades department after the abolition of the Railway Employees Department in 1980.〔 The idea was not well-received until after 1987, when the Teamsters (a major transportation union) reaffiliated with the AFL-CIO.〔 At its founding, the TTD represented 1.4 million (10 percent) of the AFL-CIO's 14 million members.〔〔 Richard I. Kilroy was named the first president of the new department.〔 Walter Shea (director of the Eastern Conference of Teamsters in Washington, D.C.) was elected Secretary-Treasurer.〔 James Kennedy, who was also the executive director of the Railway Labor Executives' Association, was named the TTD's first (and, at the time, only) full-time professional staff person.〔 The United Transportation Union did not join the TTD at its formation.〔 The TTD's inaugural convention was held in early October 1990 in Washington, D.C., with representatives from its 24 member unions (who represented more than 1 million members).〔Vail, Bruce. "New Transport Union Federation Calls for Striker Protection Law." ''Journal of Commerce.'' October 3, 1990.〕 The largest delegations came from the Teamsters, the International Association of Machinists, and the Association of Flight Attendants.〔 Other unions well represented at the convention included the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Communications Workers of America, International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, Transport Workers Union, Transportation Communication Union, United Auto Workers, and the United Steelworkers of America.〔 Richard Kilroy was elected to a five-year term as TTD President.〔Brown, Geoffrey H. "Rail Labor Union Chief Defeated In Election." ''Journal of Commerce.'' July 19, 1991./〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Transportation Trades Department, AFL–CIO」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|