Transport Workers Union, in Brooklyn Heights, honors Irish and labor heroes
Transport Workers Union Local 100 held its annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration and tribute to the TWU’s Irish American founder Mike Quill and Irish labor leader and patriot James Connolly at TWU Union Hall, 195 Montague St. in Brooklyn Heights, on Tuesday, March 15.
The TWU represents transportation workers in bus and subway lines as well as several airlines nationwide, but it started here in New York.
Speakers included Gov. Kathy Hochul, TWU International President John Samuelsen, State Sen. Tim Kennedy (D-Buffalo, and chair of the NYS Senate Transportation Committee), Councilmember Justin Brannan (D-Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights-Bath Beach) and others. The honoree was Frank McCann Jr., director of organizing for Local 100.