Urban Mass Transportation Act Archives

September 27

Punish Iowa For Reforming Its Labor Laws?!

Hawkeye State Municipalities Threatened by Federal Bureaucrats For years, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) bureaucrats have exploited a vague provision in the 1964 Urban Mass Transportation Act (UMTA) to bully municipalities across America. Time and again, DOL functionaries have invoked…

August 8

Will Trump Administration Punish Iowa for Curtailing Monopolistic Unionism?

Does U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta really think reducing union bosses’ monopoly power over transit workers is bad for the workers? Photo: Copyright Getty Images For years, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) bureaucrats have exploited a vague provision in the…