Transit worker unions call on safety agency to implement infrastructure law

Transit workers "are at risk of assault and worse each day they arrive at work,” the unions say.

NBC News By Teaganne Finn March 9, 2022

WASHINGTON — The main federal transportation safety agency still has not enforced provisions in President Joe Biden's infrastructure law that would protect workers as assaults on transit continue to trend up, a group of transit unions said Wednesday. "Our members include bus and rail transit operators, station agents, car cleaners, mechanics, and other frontline workers, all of whom are at risk of assault and worse each day they arrive at work," the labor unions said in a letter to the Federal Transit Administration, or FTA, part of the Transportation Department. The co-signers include the Amalgamated Transit Union, which is the country's largest transit union, the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department and the Transport Workers Union.

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