Silver Spring, MD – Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) International President John Costa released the following statement on the Senate Confirmation of Sean Duffy as the new U.S. Secretary of Transportation.
“As the largest labor organization representing transit workers in the United States and Canada, we congratulate Sean Duffy on his Senate confirmation to serve as the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT).
“Transit ridership is still not fully recovered since the COVID pandemic, funding is scarce, and new technology is quickly changing the way people travel. Secretary Duffy has a lot on his plate. We look forward to working with him to tackle these transportation challenges facing our nation including protecting transit workers on the job, reauthorization of the surface transportation bill, and most importantly building back our public transit systems. We’re hopeful that he will lead the Department of Transportation with public transit workers and riders in mind.”