The BSC has confirmed that the Retroactive Wage Adjustment (RWA), and Medical Contribution Refund data will available to the members through the BSC portal.  Every member will be able to view and download a complete breakdown of their retroactive wage adjustments through the BSC portal.  This information should be available in the next few weeks.  As soon as the RWA data becomes available we will post a notice on our website.

Having access to this data through the self-service portal is a significant improvement over how the 2007 retroactive wage adjustment payments were made.  Our members will now have complete, detailed, and transparent information on how their payment was calculated.  If a member has any questions or believe there was a miscalculation they will have the information necessary for them to have the Union and/or the BSC investigate their claim.

CLICK HERE to go to the BSC Self-Service Home page

CLICK HERE for Info to Access and Download Data on the BSC Self-Service Portal

CLICK HERE for info on Signing in to the BSC Self-Service Portal for the First Time

• A Separate Retroactive Payment Check will be issued on May 8^th.

• The Healthcare Contribution refund payments will be issued on June 5th.
• Retiree's and Inactive employee's retroactive payments will be issued on July 3rd.

If you have any questions regarding the RWA payments or need information on accessing your data, please contact the Union office.

By SARAH DORSEY | 0 comments

Nearly 300 transit supervisors claim they are at a bargaining impasse with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority over a long-overdue contract, just three months after their subordinates—and their counterparts in other divisions—were granted pay raises by an arbitrator.

Transport Workers Union Local 106 officials say they filed for impasse March 21 after reaching “almost total concurrence” with agency negotiators, blaming the MTA Board for failing to approve the agreement at its February meeting. The union is now demanding parity in wages and benefits with supervisors in other divisions.

Today the Union filed for impasse on the MTA Bus contract.  The next step will be for PERB to appoint a mediator to hear the issues we are at impasse on and decide if an arbitration panel is necessary to resolve our contract.  As soon as we get the date for mediation we will post it here.

On January 24^th, the Union made it clear to the Company that if the MTA Board does not take action on our contract at the February 26^th Board Meeting the Union would file for an impasse.  Since that time, we have spoken to officials from the Mayor’s office, the MTA’s Director of Labor Relations, and distributed letters to the MTA Chairman/CEO, Tom Prendergast, and all of the MTA Board members urging them to take action on our contract. 

Unfortunately, the Board decided not to take any action on our contract at that Board meeting.  The MTA is continuing to use their misguided and discredited “net zero” bargaining strategy as an excuse for not being able to take any action on our contract.  The blame for the continuation of this failed strategy rests solely on Governor Cuomo.  He is determined to extract the same merciless concessions from the employees of the MTA that he was able to extract from the CSEA and PEF unions. Those concessions included, three years of zero wage increases and dramatic increases in their healthcare contributions. 

In addition to our lawyer, Denis Engel we have retained the services of Cohen, Weiss and Simon and The Labor Bureau Inc. to assist us in the interest arbitration.