Philip Valenti

From all of us at TWU Local 106-Transit Supervisors Organization, we want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukkah.

How can any New Yorker possibly trust that Governor Hochul has any ability to make a good decision?! As the MTA is being ran into the ground with wasteful, mismanagement spending and congestion pricing being shoved down our throat, you have Governor Hochul telling us how she made the subways Read more…

Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed legislation last week that would have provided the beneficiaries of retirement-eligible transit workers who died before filing for retirement with full pension benefits. Marc A. Hermann/MTA Posted Thursday, December 19, 2024 7:47 pm BY CRYSTAL LEWIS A bill that would have provided full pension benefits to the families of Read more…

This year’s Christmas Holiday party was held at Verdi’s of Whitestone and by all measures was a huge success. We were extremely happy and proud that (the legendary) TWU International President, John Samuelson took the time out of his busy life and schedule to stop by and spend some time Read more…

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For years, the MTA-New York City Transit Authority has posted polices, bulletins and directives that cover the agency from scrutiny, if and when a problem arises, but all of these polices have built in major design flaws and they know it. These flaws run along the lines of a simple Read more…

TSO/TWU Local 106 President Phil Valenti and SSSA President Mike Carrube along with the TSO and SSSA teams were down at 2 Broadway MTA Headquarters today in full force, where they addressed the MTA board. President Valenti made it clear that we will not stand quietly by as the MTA Read more…

You really can’t make this up. The MTA is going to spend $1,000,000 on a study to try and figure out why people are not paying the fare to ride the buses and subways and at the exact same time they are cutting 10 road Dispatcher positions. That $1M could Read more…

Last night December 13, 2024 Governor Hochul vetoed Death Gamble Bill S7224/A7563. This Bill would have protected the families of all Transit Workers that continued to work past 25/55 and die before they retire. The reason given was the cost. That is absolute BS! Death Gamble Bill S7224/A7563 had a Read more…

To all members that are seeing waste, wrong doing or management incompetence at your work locations, I want to know about it. Email me pvalenti@twu106.org or call the main office (718) 601-7100 and ask to speak to me. Document what is going on and send it to me. I will Read more…