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Plenary Speaker Spotlight: Larry Willis

Posted August 2019

Larry Willis is the President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, a labor organization consisting of 32 unions that together represent workers in all areas of transportation. TTD focuses on federal legislation, regulatory matters, and policy issues that impact transportation workers. Larry oversees TTD’s daily operation and serves as the organization’s spokesperson and chief strategist. He collaborates with TTD’s affiliated unions to fight for long-term investments in our transportation system, to ensure jobs in this sector are safe and secure, and to protect and expand the rights working people have to a union voice. Under Larry’s direction, TTD works with elected leaders on both sides of the aisle and focuses on substantive, policy-driven arguments to advance core agenda items.

At Making Connections, he will be presenting and moderating a plenary session on new technology in transit, its effects on the workforce, and how to ensure that workforce training keeps up with innovation.

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