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We have been told that on Sunday June 11th, the 9th Precinct Detectives Squad made an arrest in the assault case on our brother. This person is being charged with Assault in the Second Degree. The TSO will be in court when information on the arraignment becomes available to us. Read more…

On Saturday June 10th one of our Manhattan Road Dispatchers was standing at 4th Avenue and Astor place when a unidentified male pedestrian sucker punched the Dispatcher in the face. The Dispatcher suffered a broken nose and lose of vision. This was a completely unprovoked attack! The Dispatcher was rushed Read more…

If you have not received the NYSHIP vs Aetna Medical Comparison Study already, you should soon. It was mailed out last week to all MSII, OA and Queens members in good standing. If you don’t receive it by the end of the week please call our office and we’ll mail Read more…

A third party of Health Plex Dental, has suffered a data breach. Some of our members may be affected by this. Once we get more information we’ll let you know. For now the MTA has promised full credit monitoring for all of our members in this plan.

We are happy to announce that today we signed off on continuing the Road Control PIP’s for MTA Bus, OA and the Queens Division Road Dispatchers. This is the sixth year we have been getting the PIP for our members and it really has been working out great for everyone. Read more…

We received a call on Monday that our MSII, OA and Queens contracts would not be presented to the MTA Board to be voted on at their monthly meeting which was on May 24th but they would give us a letter stating that May 24th will be the date of Read more…

A few weeks before the Local 100 contract expired on May 15th the Authority cut off all contract negotiations with all other Unions and focused all of their attention and resources on Local 100 and getting them a contract. I was and have been absolutely furious about this as I Read more…

With a stroke of a pen, Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul changed the reimbursement to Doctors that are out of network. This change will take effect on July 1, 2023 and will have a negative impact on anyone in NYSHIP that sees a Doctor out of network. See below for more Read more…

I am very happy to announce that today at 12 noon when the voting polls closed, all three contracts (MaBSTOA, MSII and Queens) were overwhelming approved by the membership. Thank you for taking the time to participate in the democracy of being in a Union and thank you for your Read more…