A labor union seeking to represent onboard attendants for Brightline in Florida is urging the U.S. Department of Transportation to deny the for-profit passenger train company federal funds over Brightline’s alleged anti-union tactics. The president of the Transport Workers Union, representing 155,000 U.S. workers in the rail, transportation and airline industries, wrote a letter to Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sept. 19 accusing Brightline of “abusing the public coffers and denying workers their fundamental labor rights.” Union president John Samuelsen, in his letter, also urged the DOT to investigate whether funds previously awarded to Brightline “should be clawed back due to the railroad’s non-compliance with federal law.”