The officers of TWU Local 106 were all incredibly proud and humbled to go out and stand with the toughest of the tough, and show the striking NY State Correction Officers at the Sing Sing State Penitentiary our support and respect for the job that they do. We know that Read more…
As President Trump pushes to kill congestion pricing and Governor Hochul fights like hell to ensure New Yorkers continue to pay more to just drive into Manhattan, what I predict is that Congestion pricing will end for good and the MTA will then look at the MTA workforce as their Read more…
TSO/TWU Local 106 President Philip Valenti and Vice President Joseph Betancourt laid it on the line with the MTA Board today, letting the board know that Local 106 is here to call out the mistreatment of supervisors, mismanagement of the MTA, a need for DOGE, and the crisis the MTA Read more…
TSO/TWU Local 106 stands in solidarity with the New York State Corrections officers who walked off the job and went on strike two weeks ago. We know that Corrections Officers have the most dangerous and toughest job in the country and recent law changes over the last few years have Read more…
If you hired on or before August 1, 2000 and were placed on the Sick Leave Control List (as a TSO member) and you were NOT paid on the first day on any sick leave absence while on the SLCL, we want to know about it. This only applies if Read more…
For some reason we suddenly started getting a slew of inquiries from active and retired members worried that we were going to eliminate Medicare as an option and force all current and future retirees into Medicare advantage. I want to remind everyone that TSO/TWU Local 106 was the first Union Read more…
(Evan Simko-Bednarski for New York Daily News) Keep in mind before you read this article, the Department of Buses under the guise of cost savings, cut 10 Road Dispatcher jobs. The Road Dispatcher is the front Line Supervisor in the DOB. The MTA’s plan to fix the ailing East New Read more…
We are close to settling the TSC and SSII contracts but Labor Relations is doing what they always do, which is working at a snail’s pace, this is why we don’t have deals yet. We did have one MSII contract negotiation meeting so far but no MaBSTOA, MTA Bus or Read more…
The NYC Transit Authority bought these Mobile Subway Car lifts a few years ago. They were delivered to 207 Street Yard and other yards throughout NYC to lift Subway cars when they are being repaired but they have never been taken off the crates they were delivered on years ago. Read more…
