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.