TSO/TWU Local 106 stands in solidarity with the New York State Corrections officers who walked off the job and went on strike two weeks ago. We know that Corrections Officers have the most dangerous and toughest job in the country and recent law changes over the last few years have Read more…
If you hired on or before August 1, 2000 and were placed on the Sick Leave Control List (as a TSO member) and you were NOT paid on the first day on any sick leave absence while on the SLCL, we want to know about it. This only applies if Read more…
For some reason we suddenly started getting a slew of inquiries from active and retired members worried that we were going to eliminate Medicare as an option and force all current and future retirees into Medicare advantage. I want to remind everyone that TSO/TWU Local 106 was the first Union Read more…
(Evan Simko-Bednarski for New York Daily News) Keep in mind before you read this article, the Department of Buses under the guise of cost savings, cut 10 Road Dispatcher jobs. The Road Dispatcher is the front Line Supervisor in the DOB. The MTA’s plan to fix the ailing East New Read more…
We are close to settling the TSC and SSII contracts but Labor Relations is doing what they always do, which is working at a snail’s pace, this is why we don’t have deals yet. We did have one MSII contract negotiation meeting so far but no MaBSTOA, MTA Bus or Read more…
The NYC Transit Authority bought these Mobile Subway Car lifts a few years ago. They were delivered to 207 Street Yard and other yards throughout NYC to lift Subway cars when they are being repaired but they have never been taken off the crates they were delivered on years ago. Read more…
A message to our members: As you are all aware, the MTA has continued its harassment of our members by forcing us to litigate Bus Lane and Bus Stop violations issued to our members while they are working in their capacity as Supervisors. It is obvious to us that the Read more…
We filed a Freedom of Information (FOIL) request today with the MTA to find out if the Transit Authority is actually enforcing the penalties to Construction Companies that have a contract to perform work in the Department of Subways. These contracts all have Liquidated Damages clauses in them. This clause Read more…
https://www.mta.info/climate This link to the MTA’s Website referring their commitment to reduce carbon emissions while at the same time, the NYC Transit Authority runs buses kept outside all night during winter operations. This is just more of same old BS coming from the MTA, year after year with no oversite. Read more…
