{"id":371890,"date":"2026-10-13T11:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371890\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T11:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:50:20","slug":"twu-adding-nyc-ferry-captains-to-its-union-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371890\/","title":{"rendered":"TWU adding NYC ferry captains to its union ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s largest transportation worker union has now expanded to Big Apple waterways. <\/p>\n<p>More than 60 NYC ferry captains have joined the Transport Workers Union of America \u2014 in what the labor group hopes will put more pressure on the Big Apple for future contract negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The ferry operators, who run vessels across NYC Ferry\u2019s routes on the East River, Hudson River and New York Harbor, voted on Friday to join the TWU.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41294677\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/members-transport-workers-union-attend-144769582.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the Transport Workers Union pose for a group photo at the Labor Day Rally and March in New York.\" class=\"wp-image-41294677\"\/>Roberta Reardon and members of the Transport Workers Union attend the \u201cOur City, Our Fight, Our Future\u201d Labor Day Rally and March in New York.  Laura Thompson \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the face of an aggressive and concerted anti-trade union campaign by the employer, Hornblower, NYC Ferry Captains stood strong and voted to join the Transport Workers Union,\u201d TWU International President John Samuelsen said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndustrial trade unionism \u2013 organizing every job title and craft at every employer \u2013 is the pathway to worker empowerment. This is the TWU\u2019s goal in the NYC Ferry system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ferry captains are employed by Hornblower, a private company that is contracted by the New York City Economic Development Corporation to run the service. <\/p>\n<p>Around 60 ferry technicians and welders voted in August to also join the union, which now reps air, bus, subway and rail line workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The country\u2019s largest transportation worker union has now expanded to Big Apple waterways. More than 60 NYC ferry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,9,56,63,65,64,608,3555,58],"class_list":["post-371890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-transportation","tag-unions","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}