All Salary Caps have been lifted and reset. If you were on the Salary Cap you may now work overtime. There is an issue though, because they have not figured out how to make this programing change in their systems, but regardless you can work. Labor Relations met with the Read more…
Contract negotiations are very tricky, so I need to be careful on what I say but what I can tell you is this, we met with Labor Relations and Management again today to hear their latest contract proposal. And we agreed to that proposal… Provided that it would get us Read more…
Today, our President, Vice President and three Transportation Chairman met with MTA Senior VP of Buses, Frank Annicaro and VP John Pillartz to discuss the recent assaults on our Road Dispatchers by the public. It’s impossible to prevent all assaults as there are people walking around our streets and for Read more…
We sadly announce the passing of MSII Eric Anderson. Eric worked for the Transit Authority for 32 years and was 59 years old. This is another tragic example of why we need the Death Gamble Bill passed by Albany. Eric could have retired but instead for good reasons he continued Read more…
TSO Recording Secretary, Jose DeJesus, TWU Int. President John Samuelson and TSO Queens Division Chairman, Todd Napoletano walk to the US Capital building. In DC for the TWU 2023 Legislative and Cope Conference.
Never forget that we live in the greatest country in the history of civilization.
OA and Queens General Wage Increases (GWI) will go into effect on July 20th. MSII GWI will go into effect on August 3rd. We don’t have a retro date yet but we expect that to be at the end of the year probably in November.
I want to remind everyone as the new bus radio systems come on line. You are to carry one radio not both old and new radios. The agreement that was made with the BCC a few years ago was that patrol cars would take two radios and they would communicate Read more…
On Saturday June 17th one of our Bronx Road Dispatcher’s was working at Westchester and Tremont Ave’s when a crazed pedestrian that was harassing a Bus Operator on a layover at the terminal punched the Dispatcher in the chest and face. The Dispatcher heard yelling and walked over to the Read more…