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Get to Know AFL-CIO's Affiliates: Amalgamated Transit Union
… run weekly until we've covered all 55 of our affiliates . … Name of Union: Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Mission : To fight for the rights of transit workers and promote mass transit. Current Leadership of Union : Lawrence J. Hanley is the … Javier M. Perez Jr. serves as international executive vice president. Current Number of Members : Nearly 200,000. Members Work As : Metropolitan, interstate and school bus drivers; paratransit, light rail, subway, streetcar and ferry boat … industrialization advanced in the United States in the late 1800s, more and more workers needed transportation and workers to run that transportation. Mass transit workers in the early days largely worked with horses that pulled streetcars. The …