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Transit workers keep NYC moving — if you can afford to ride

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Union big’s trains of thought

John Samuelsen. Subway track worker by trade and international president of the Transport Workers Union of America — the biggest airline union in the US with 165,000 transport workers.

Samuelsen: “I oversee 100 coast-to-coast unions, including the Caribbean, plus our big transit cities — like 30,000 workers at American Airlines, 34,000 at Southwest Air. Plus NYC, Philadelphia and San Francisco cable cars.

“My first time on a subway was Avenue U and East 16th Street. I was about 8. Nazareth High School in East Flatbush. A working-class Irish neighborhood in southern Brooklyn. I still live there. Right where my father grew up. Same address. Then, in ’93, I found that I was a good organizer.”

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