Philip Valenti

These are the 20 winners of the 2025 $1,000 Scholarship Awards. 1. Karina Ayriev  2. Joshua Collazo 3. Taina DeJesus  4. Taylor DeLisi 5. Jayda Davis  6. Marc Glean 7. Nicholas Jacobs 8. Brannon Middleton 9. Andrew Napoletano 10. Domenic  Settimo 11. Sophie Shneider 12. Vito Valentino 13. Danny  PaganRead more about Updated: 2025 ,000 Scholarship Winners! And a Special Thank You to our Generous Sponsors, New York Life, M3 Technologies, Pasternak Ziegler LLC and CMSW for Making this Possible

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 subwaysRead more about You CAN NOT Trust Governor Hochul!

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 ofRead more about The Chief: Governor vetoes transit workers’ ‘death gamble’ bill

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 timeRead more about 2024 TSO/TWU Local 106 Christmas Holiday Party, Blowout!

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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 simpleRead more about No More MTA Umbrella Policies Leaving Supervisors Exposed!

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 MTARead more about Local 106 and the SSSA Teams Join Forces to Speak out Against MTA’s Cuts to Dispatchers

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 couldRead more about MTA wasting M to study ‘psychology’ of fare beaters — as agency cries poverty, pushes for congestion pricing

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 aRead more about DEATH GAMBLE BILL…DEAD! VETOED BY GOVERNOR HOCHUL LAST NIGHT.