Citizens For Modern Transit Elects Swansea Resident To Board

The region’s transit advocacy organization, Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT), elected Glyn Ramage, of Swansea, Ill., to its Board of Directors during the organization’s 35th Annual Meeting held in downtown St. Louis last week. Ramage is the current business manager for the Southwestern Illinois Laborers’ District Council. As a board member, he will serve a three-year term.

Ramage has served in his current capacity with the Southwestern Illinois Laborers’ District Council for nearly two decades and has been a member of the Laborers’ Local No. 100 in East St. Louis for 43 years, serving as business manager from 1992 to 2005. Ramage also serves as the chairman for the Southwestern Illinois Laborers’ Political League and the Midwest Region Retiree Council. He also serves as a Trustee for the Central Laborers’ Pension Fund, The United Way and Midwest Region Foundation for Fair Contracting. In 2018, Ramage was also appointed as President of the 12th Congressional AFL-CO.

For more information about Citizens for Modern Transit, visit www.cmt-stl.org or call (314) 231-7272. Those interested can also like the organization on Facebook or follow them on Twitter @cmt_stl.