Amtrak heightening security after its largest union calls to ban rioters from trains
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The TCU, which represents around 35,000 people working in the transportation sector and around 6,100 on Amtrak, urged Amtrak to utilize the "no-fly" list in screening passengers and deny ticket sales to those individuals in a statement released Monday.
"We must not let our nation’s trains or DC’s Union Station – with its surrounding grounds and proximity to the Capitol – become the site of, or aid in, another historically tragic event. We must be prepared for all situations, and hope for the best," TCU National President Artie Maratea said in a statement.
The urgency to prohibit violent protestors from railways comes after flight attendants demanded the pro-Trump rioters be banned from planes.