Arbitrator, Howard Edelman recently issued a decision agreeing with the Union’s position and restored how the Authority applies the eight hour rule to Dispatcher. In February of this year the Authority unilaterally changed the way they applied the eight hour rule to Dispatchers and we filed a grievance. After many Read more…
On behalf of our negotiating team (Thomas Burke, Dennis Bottomley, Phil Valenti), I am happy to announce that we have reached tentative agreements with the Authority on our 2013 through 2018 contracts. For your convenience, I have listed below some of the Contract highlights. Wage increases in every year of Read more…
Trustees of financially distressed multiemployer pension plans would be allowed to cut participants’ benefits to prevent the plans from becoming insolvent under legislation narrowly approved by the House of Representatives Thursday night.
Benefits could be cut if a plan is projected to become insolvent during a current plan year or any of the next 14 years, or any of the next 19 years if the plan’s ratio of inactive participants to active participants exceeds 2-to-1 or if the plan is less than 80% funded.
We have created an excel work sheet for the members to calculate their retroactive payment. This will help the members decide what percentage, if any they would like to defer. To calculate your payment, you need to input the hours you worked during each pay raise period, make sure you Read more…
The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH), has released a three-page guidance document on Ebola Virus Disease and how workers can protect themselves. We recently met with management to discuss the MTA’s readiness plan. MTA has released the following information and guidance.
Today the Contract was… APPROVED! By the MTA Board We will post further information regarding the implementation of the contract as the information becomes available. I would like to thanks everyone for their patience and support throughout these long and torturous negotiations.
*** UPDATE AUGUST 15, 2014 *** Yesterday, the MTA informed us that they are still in discussions with the City over our MTA Bus Contract. In response to this, I have written a letter to the mediator requesting that she reconvene the parties to either execute a contract or declare Read more…
By SARAH DORSEY | Posted: Monday, August 4, 2014 5:15 pm
A former Bus Mechanic’s death from lung cancer was deemed by a Judge to be related to his 28 years working amid heavy diesel fumes in a Metropolitan Transportation Authority garage, in what his widow’s attorneys believe is the first legal case to establish a link between occupational exposure to diesel emissions and cancer.