On Feb. 28, arbitrator Howard Edelman ruled that the MTA’s plan to cut subway service during weekdays and increase it on weekends would not fly. In a major win for
The MTA and the Transit Workers Union Local 100 have had numerous disagreements over the years. Now the stakes are higher for strap-hangers. The MTA wants to cut subway service
New York, NY – Just several weeks after transit agency top management and union leaders wrote urging Albany to address the dramatic spike in violent assaults on transit workers with stiffer
New York, NY – According to Richie Davis, TWU Local 100 Vice-President for Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority [MaBSTOA], assaults on Bus Operators have increased 42-percent since 2018. “Our
New York, NY – Straphangers continue to be a little bit wary about resuming their regular commutes following April 12’s shooting in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, in which the alleged assailant was
New York, NY – A ruling by a federal judge to strike down the Biden administration’s mask mandate for air and mass transit travel comes even as the nation has
New York, NY – As we look to finally move past the pandemic, there’s still a great number of workers who are refusing to return to the office. Although Covid
New York, NY – In New York City, the public could breathe a sigh of relief when the alleged Brooklyn subway shooter was apprehended the day after the incident that
New York, NY – Local 1056 Bus Operator Bernadine Kamwanya has been on the job for almost fifteen years. She drives the Q43 in Queens. Before that it was the the
