TWU International President John Samuelson called on all of the TWU Locals to come out to 30 Rockefeller Plaza today and join the striking workers of SAG-AFTRA at their rally. And of course many of our Local 106 officers came out and walked the picket line in show of support. Read more…
On Friday September 29th, the Transportation Columbia Association honored TSO President Phil Valenti with their 2023 “Man-of-the-Year” award in recognition of all Phil’s accomplishments. Many of the TSO Officers attended the ceremony despite the historic rain and flooding that took place throughout the course of the day.
The TWU International along with tri-state TWU Locals including Local 106 will be out supporting the Union and rank and file members of the Screen Actors Guild- SAG, and American Federation of Television and Radio Artist-AFTRA. This Union has been out on Strike since July 14, 2023. For more infuriation, Read more…
It’s Official! The Membership has Ratified the Contract! We would like to thank all of you for your patience during this difficult and long negotiation process. This negotiation has been grueling, with many sleepless days, nights and weekends. There were many highs and lows, but we stayed united, and ultimately Read more…
The results from the contract vote is below. There were 218 votes cast with 209 voting Yes, 7 voting No, and 2 blank votes. The contract will now go to the MTA Board on October 25th to be approved.
On September 20th we filed a grievance for all Units of the TSO that were affected by this change. On August 27th the MTA and its agencies of NYCT, MaBSTOA, and MTA Bus made a sweeping change to the interpretation of the criteria of what is considered as work time Read more…
MTA Bus contract ratification voting is currently underway. Please remember to cast your vote on this historic contract before the deadline on September 29th at 11:00am when the polling closes. If you have ANY issues with casting your ballot and/or if you did not receive a ballot in the mail, Read more…
Some pics from the September 14th MTA Bus Unit-Contract Meeting posted below. We would like to thank all of our members that were able to join us for the Unit/Contract Q&A Meeting. We also want to thank V.P. Joe Betancourt, Rec Sec, Jose DeJesus, OA Maint Chairman, Tony Serrano, OA Read more…
It’s that time of the year again when the MTA asks everyone to complete the mandated training. The MTA is again allowing this training to be done off site. See Memo below for details.
We all know what happened on September 11, 2001 and we all remember where we were when our beloved World Trade Center buildings were attacked by terrorist. This terrorist attack on New York and America was felt strongest by us New Yorkers who had family and friends working in those Read more…