Florida's entire Democratic U.S. House delegation, including local Congressmen Maxwell Frost (D-10) and Darren Soto (D-9), have voiced support for Brightline workers’ right to organize, following allegations from the Transport Workers Union of union-busting behavior by the rail company. “Since 1926, the Railway Labor Act has protected rail workers and their right to form a union and collective bargain — a core principle we all unequivocally support,” the U.S. House delegation of eight Congressional members, led by U.S. House Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, shared in a statement. “With the news of employees working onboard Brightline trains from Miami to Orlando seeking to organize with the Transport Workers Union (TWU), we reaffirm and publicly support the right and ability to organize with the National Mediation Board as intended under the Railway Labor Act.” The statement, pretty uncontroversial on its face, comes shortly after TWU president John Samuelsen sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg this month, urging him to direct the DOT to deny additional federal funds to Brightline and to investigate the for-profit passenger train’s “compliance with its obligations” under previously-awarded grants.