As promised, I did a little investigating, and found out from my contact at Zerega that DMV made the decision back in 2000 not to accept any letters from the Authority separating work accidents from non work accidents for lack of a better word. I will talk to our political action people and see if they can have a conversation with the DMV Commissioner to hopefully resolve these issues
Stay Tuned!
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
MV104 New York State Accident Reporting
MV104 NY State Accident Reporting
Bus Operators who are involved in accidents are required to fill out the MV104 accident form. In the past, accidents that were considered minor or non preventable weren't reported to the State of New York. Now every little infraction gets reported to Motor Vehicle which affects your insurance premiums. When this change in policy occurred, we are still investigating.
Be mindful and take extra care while operating those buses and personal cars. All accident are recorded on your license, so we have to be extra careful out there. Be mindful and stay tuned!
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100
Bus Operators who are involved in accidents are required to fill out the MV104 accident form. In the past, accidents that were considered minor or non preventable weren't reported to the State of New York. Now every little infraction gets reported to Motor Vehicle which affects your insurance premiums. When this change in policy occurred, we are still investigating.
Be mindful and take extra care while operating those buses and personal cars. All accident are recorded on your license, so we have to be extra careful out there. Be mindful and stay tuned!
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011, 2:26 PM
State Employees Reject Wage Concessions
By THOMAS KAPLAN
Updated 3:47 p.m. | The second-largest union of New York State employees has rejected a package of wage and benefits concessions negotiated by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, dealing a jarring setback to the governor that is likely to prompt several thousand layoffs.
The union, the Public Employees Federation, which represents 56,000 state workers, announced on Tuesday that its members had voted 54 percent to 46 percent against the contract, which would have imposed a three-year freeze on wages and increased health insurance costs. The vote took place by mail over several weeks.
The president of the union, Kenneth Brynien, said that members were ready to make sacrifices given the state’s shaky fiscal condition but that they felt the concessions Mr. Cuomo insisted on were beyond what was reasonable.
“The cuts that are demanded of them in this tentative agreement were just too many, and they cut too deep,” Mr. Brynien said at a news conference. “The sacrifices were too great, and they said, ‘Enough is enough.’”
Mr. Brynien took note of the governor’s refusal to seek the extension of a temporary income tax surcharge on high-earning residents during this year’s legislative session, a position that put Mr. Cuomo at odds with other Democrats and organized labor.
“The state should not be demanding this level of sacrifice from us while it’s not demanding those same sacrifices from the wealthiest New Yorkers,” he said.
Mr. Cuomo has repeatedly threatened that there would be layoffs if state workers did not accept deep wage and benefit concessions; the state has estimated that 3,500 members of the Public Employees Federation would lose their jobs if the union rejected the concessions package.
The state’s largest union of public workers, the Civil Service Employees Association, announced on Aug. 16 that its membership had voted 59 percent to 41 percent to approve a nearly identical five-year agreement that promised job protections in exchange for wage and benefits concessions.
Mr. Brynien asked the governor on Tuesday to return to the bargaining table. Mr. Cuomo did not immediately comment on Tuesday, although his administration had indicated that layoffs would follow almost immediately if the union rejected the deal.
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Donald Yaes
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State Employees Reject Wage Concessions
By THOMAS KAPLAN
Updated 3:47 p.m. | The second-largest union of New York State employees has rejected a package of wage and benefits concessions negotiated by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, dealing a jarring setback to the governor that is likely to prompt several thousand layoffs.
The union, the Public Employees Federation, which represents 56,000 state workers, announced on Tuesday that its members had voted 54 percent to 46 percent against the contract, which would have imposed a three-year freeze on wages and increased health insurance costs. The vote took place by mail over several weeks.
The president of the union, Kenneth Brynien, said that members were ready to make sacrifices given the state’s shaky fiscal condition but that they felt the concessions Mr. Cuomo insisted on were beyond what was reasonable.
“The cuts that are demanded of them in this tentative agreement were just too many, and they cut too deep,” Mr. Brynien said at a news conference. “The sacrifices were too great, and they said, ‘Enough is enough.’”
Mr. Brynien took note of the governor’s refusal to seek the extension of a temporary income tax surcharge on high-earning residents during this year’s legislative session, a position that put Mr. Cuomo at odds with other Democrats and organized labor.
“The state should not be demanding this level of sacrifice from us while it’s not demanding those same sacrifices from the wealthiest New Yorkers,” he said.
Mr. Cuomo has repeatedly threatened that there would be layoffs if state workers did not accept deep wage and benefit concessions; the state has estimated that 3,500 members of the Public Employees Federation would lose their jobs if the union rejected the concessions package.
The state’s largest union of public workers, the Civil Service Employees Association, announced on Aug. 16 that its membership had voted 59 percent to 41 percent to approve a nearly identical five-year agreement that promised job protections in exchange for wage and benefits concessions.
Mr. Brynien asked the governor on Tuesday to return to the bargaining table. Mr. Cuomo did not immediately comment on Tuesday, although his administration had indicated that layoffs would follow almost immediately if the union rejected the deal.
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Chair, T/O Division of TWU 100
Donald Yaes
MaBstoa TWU-100
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
TWU Local 100 First Annual Retirement Dinner Dance
Brothers and Sisters;
TWU Local 100 held their first annual retirees dinner dance at the Dante Caterers in East Elmhurst Queens. The night was filled with Union History past and present with a live band to compliment the evening.
From the Current Local leadership Secretary Treasurer Earl Phillips, Recording Secretary Benita Johnson, Administrative Vice President Angel Giboyeaux and Assistant to the President Shannon Poland.
From the MaBstoa Division Former Local 100 and International President Sonny Hall, Brian Clarke MaBstoa Vice President, Tommy Lenane Maintenance Division Chair, Danny O'Brian Maintenance Division Recording Secretary. From MaBstoa Division1 Retired Division Chair Mike Tutrone Current Division1 chair Richard Davis, Division Vice Chair & Manhattanville Vice Chair Donald Yates, Division Vice Chair & Michael J. Quill Depot Chairman Sukhy Singh, Division Recording Secretary Elizabeth Wilson, Michael J. Quill Vice Chair & Eboard member Chris Magwood, Michael J. Quill Recording Secretary Reinaldo Rios, Current Chairman of the Closed Amsterdam & 146st Depot William Isabell and Shop Steward Dawn Sobers.
MaBstoa Division1 retired 146St Chairman Clayton Davis, Retired Michael J. Quill Chairman Bobby Mawhinney.
From MaBstoa Division2 Retired Division Vice Chair & GunHill Chairman Rosie Allen.
From TA Surface Brander White Eboard Member & Director of the Woman's Committee.
As a Union and Labor movement, it's important to support such events so we can honor our Brothers and Sisters who paved the way for us to exist on these jobs. I was once asked, what can I do to get involved with the Union, My answer was anything and everything! Though small to some, these are the events that needs
To be supported in order to remember and never forget why we exist in the first place!
Special Shout Out to Manhattanville Depot Chairman Jose Castellon who donated $650.00 to support the event.
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100
TWU Local 100 held their first annual retirees dinner dance at the Dante Caterers in East Elmhurst Queens. The night was filled with Union History past and present with a live band to compliment the evening.
From the Current Local leadership Secretary Treasurer Earl Phillips, Recording Secretary Benita Johnson, Administrative Vice President Angel Giboyeaux and Assistant to the President Shannon Poland.
From the MaBstoa Division Former Local 100 and International President Sonny Hall, Brian Clarke MaBstoa Vice President, Tommy Lenane Maintenance Division Chair, Danny O'Brian Maintenance Division Recording Secretary. From MaBstoa Division1 Retired Division Chair Mike Tutrone Current Division1 chair Richard Davis, Division Vice Chair & Manhattanville Vice Chair Donald Yates, Division Vice Chair & Michael J. Quill Depot Chairman Sukhy Singh, Division Recording Secretary Elizabeth Wilson, Michael J. Quill Vice Chair & Eboard member Chris Magwood, Michael J. Quill Recording Secretary Reinaldo Rios, Current Chairman of the Closed Amsterdam & 146st Depot William Isabell and Shop Steward Dawn Sobers.
MaBstoa Division1 retired 146St Chairman Clayton Davis, Retired Michael J. Quill Chairman Bobby Mawhinney.
From MaBstoa Division2 Retired Division Vice Chair & GunHill Chairman Rosie Allen.
From TA Surface Brander White Eboard Member & Director of the Woman's Committee.
As a Union and Labor movement, it's important to support such events so we can honor our Brothers and Sisters who paved the way for us to exist on these jobs. I was once asked, what can I do to get involved with the Union, My answer was anything and everything! Though small to some, these are the events that needs
To be supported in order to remember and never forget why we exist in the first place!
Special Shout Out to Manhattanville Depot Chairman Jose Castellon who donated $650.00 to support the event.
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100
Thursday, September 22, 2011
EXAM#2600
York city transit is given in exam for signal maintainer exam number is 2600 the filing date is September 7, 2011 to September 27, 2011 the filing fee is $82 the salary current minimum salary is $30.34 an hour for 40 hour workweek increasing to $32.11 after 36 months of service. The job description maintain and repair the railroad signal system. requirements; by the last date of the application. You must meet one of the following required number. 1) two years of full-time experience as an electrician or electric technician at the journey level installing, maintaining or repairing electrical, electronic or electro mechanical systems plus two years of full-time experience as a mechanics helper or apprentice or trainee performing or assisting in the work described above or graduation from a trade schools technical school or vocational school with a major course of study in electrical, electronic or electromechanical technology or closely related field totaling at least 600 hours or in A.A.S degree or higher from an accredited college or university
2) completion of a four year full time apprenticeships in the electrical electronic or electromechanical trade recognized by the New York State department of labor.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Lock Box Rally At City Hall
This morning the transport workers Union local 100 along with elected officials and advocacy groups met at City Hall today to demand Cuomo the governor of New York to sign the lockbox bill that would secure dedicated funds that couldn't be touched to plug other deficits in the state. This Bill if signed into law, would prevent the state government from raiding funds that are dedicated to Transit
Local 100 President John Samuelsen spoke of the past raids on the dedicated funding and also informed the press on the importance of keeping a transit system a priority because of it's importance to the economy. John Samuelsen ended by saying that the budget has to stop being balanced off the backs of working people!
Local 100 President John Samuelsen spoke of the past raids on the dedicated funding and also informed the press on the importance of keeping a transit system a priority because of it's importance to the economy. John Samuelsen ended by saying that the budget has to stop being balanced off the backs of working people!
Monday, September 19, 2011
What's Not Being Talked About in The News
The Biggest Thing Happening Right Now That Your Local News Probably Isn’t Telling You
As the “Workers’ Rights are Human Rights” e-news went to press, the “Occupy Wall Street” protest was disrupting Wall Street for a third consecutive day— this time when the stock market was open. New York City police were limiting access to Wall Street Monday morning, requiring residents and workers in blocks surrounding the New York Stock Exchange to show identification.
The Call to Occupy Wall Street Resonates Around the World
By Micah White and Kalle Lasn
September 19, 2011
Reposted from The Guardian
On Saturday 17 September, many of us watched in awe as 5,000 Americans descended on to the financial district of lower Manhattan, waved signs, unfurled banners, beat drums, chanted slogans and proceeded to walk towards the “financial Gomorrah” of the nation. They vowed to “occupy Wall Street” and to “bring justice to the bankers”, but the New York police thwarted their efforts temporarily, locking down the symbolic street with barricades and checkpoints.
Undeterred, protesters walked laps around the area before holding a people’s assembly and setting up a semi-permanent protest encampment in a park on Liberty Street, a stone’s throw from Wall Street and a block from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Three hundred spent the night, several hundred reinforcements arrived the next day and as we write this article, the encampment is rolling out sleeping bags once again. When they tweeted to the world that they were hungry, a nearby pizzeria received $2,800 in orders for delivery in a single hour. Emboldened by an outpouring of international solidarity, these American indignados said they’d be there to greet the bankers when the stock market opened on Monday. It looks like, for now, the police don’t think they can stop them. ABC News reports that “even though the demonstrators don’t have a permit for the protest, [the New York police department says that] they have no plans to remove those protesters who seem determined to stay on the streets.” Organisers on the ground say, “we’re digging in for a long-term occupation”.
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET was inspired by the people’s assemblies of Spain and floated as a concept by a double-page poster in the 97th issue of Adbusters magazine, but it was spearheaded, orchestrated and accomplished by independent activists. It all started when Adbusters asked its network of culture jammers to flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens and peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months. The idea caught on immediately on social networks and unaffiliated activists seized the meme and built an open-source organising site. A few days later, a general assembly was held in New York City and 150 people showed up. These activists became the core organisers of the occupation. The mystique of Anonymous pushed the meme into the mainstream media. Their video communique endorsing the action garnered 100,000 views and a warning from the Department of Homeland Security addressed to the nation’s bankers. When, in August, the indignados of Spain sent word that they would be holding a solidarity event in Madrid’s financial district, activists in Milan, Valencia, London, Lisbon, Athens, San Francisco, Madison, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Israel and beyond vowed to do the same.
There is a shared feeling on the streets around the world that the global economy is a Ponzi scheme run by and for Big Finance. People everywhere are waking up to the realisation that there is something fundamentally wrong with a system in which speculative financial transactions add up, each day, to $1.3tn (50 times more than the sum of all the commercial transactions). Meanwhile, according to a United Nations report, “in the 35 countries for which data exist, nearly 40% of jobseekers have been without work for more than one year”.
“CEOs, the biggest corporations, and the wealthy are taking too much from our country and I think it’s time for us to take back,” said one activist who joined the protests last Saturday. Jason Ahmadi, who travelled in from Oakland, California explained that “a lot of us feel there is a large crisis in our economy and a lot of it is caused by the folks who do business here”. Bill Steyerd, a Vietnam veteran from Queens, said “it’s a worthy cause because people on Wall Street are blood-sucking warmongers”.
There is not just anger. There is also a sense that the standard solutions to the economic crisis proposed by our politicians and mainstream economists – stimulus, cuts, debt, low interest rates, encouraging consumption – are false options that will not work. Deeper changes are needed, such as a “Robin Hood” tax on financial transactions; reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act in the US; implementing a ban on high-frequency “flash” trading. The “too big to fail” banks must be broken up, downsized and made to serve the people, the economy and society again. The financial fraudsters responsible for the 2008 meltdown must be brought to justice. Then there is the long-term mother of all solutions: a total rethinking of western consumerism that throws into question how we measure progress.
If the current economic woes in Europe and the US spiral into a prolonged global recession, people’s encampments will become a permanent fixtures at financial districts and outside stock markets around the world. Until our demands are met and the global economic regime is fundamentally reformed, our tent cities will keep popping up.
Bravo to those courageous souls in the encampment on New York’s Liberty Street. Every night that #OCCUPYWALLSTREET continues will escalate the possibility of a full-fledged global uprising against business as usual.
As the “Workers’ Rights are Human Rights” e-news went to press, the “Occupy Wall Street” protest was disrupting Wall Street for a third consecutive day— this time when the stock market was open. New York City police were limiting access to Wall Street Monday morning, requiring residents and workers in blocks surrounding the New York Stock Exchange to show identification.
The Call to Occupy Wall Street Resonates Around the World
By Micah White and Kalle Lasn
September 19, 2011
Reposted from The Guardian
On Saturday 17 September, many of us watched in awe as 5,000 Americans descended on to the financial district of lower Manhattan, waved signs, unfurled banners, beat drums, chanted slogans and proceeded to walk towards the “financial Gomorrah” of the nation. They vowed to “occupy Wall Street” and to “bring justice to the bankers”, but the New York police thwarted their efforts temporarily, locking down the symbolic street with barricades and checkpoints.
Undeterred, protesters walked laps around the area before holding a people’s assembly and setting up a semi-permanent protest encampment in a park on Liberty Street, a stone’s throw from Wall Street and a block from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Three hundred spent the night, several hundred reinforcements arrived the next day and as we write this article, the encampment is rolling out sleeping bags once again. When they tweeted to the world that they were hungry, a nearby pizzeria received $2,800 in orders for delivery in a single hour. Emboldened by an outpouring of international solidarity, these American indignados said they’d be there to greet the bankers when the stock market opened on Monday. It looks like, for now, the police don’t think they can stop them. ABC News reports that “even though the demonstrators don’t have a permit for the protest, [the New York police department says that] they have no plans to remove those protesters who seem determined to stay on the streets.” Organisers on the ground say, “we’re digging in for a long-term occupation”.
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET was inspired by the people’s assemblies of Spain and floated as a concept by a double-page poster in the 97th issue of Adbusters magazine, but it was spearheaded, orchestrated and accomplished by independent activists. It all started when Adbusters asked its network of culture jammers to flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens and peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months. The idea caught on immediately on social networks and unaffiliated activists seized the meme and built an open-source organising site. A few days later, a general assembly was held in New York City and 150 people showed up. These activists became the core organisers of the occupation. The mystique of Anonymous pushed the meme into the mainstream media. Their video communique endorsing the action garnered 100,000 views and a warning from the Department of Homeland Security addressed to the nation’s bankers. When, in August, the indignados of Spain sent word that they would be holding a solidarity event in Madrid’s financial district, activists in Milan, Valencia, London, Lisbon, Athens, San Francisco, Madison, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Israel and beyond vowed to do the same.
There is a shared feeling on the streets around the world that the global economy is a Ponzi scheme run by and for Big Finance. People everywhere are waking up to the realisation that there is something fundamentally wrong with a system in which speculative financial transactions add up, each day, to $1.3tn (50 times more than the sum of all the commercial transactions). Meanwhile, according to a United Nations report, “in the 35 countries for which data exist, nearly 40% of jobseekers have been without work for more than one year”.
“CEOs, the biggest corporations, and the wealthy are taking too much from our country and I think it’s time for us to take back,” said one activist who joined the protests last Saturday. Jason Ahmadi, who travelled in from Oakland, California explained that “a lot of us feel there is a large crisis in our economy and a lot of it is caused by the folks who do business here”. Bill Steyerd, a Vietnam veteran from Queens, said “it’s a worthy cause because people on Wall Street are blood-sucking warmongers”.
There is not just anger. There is also a sense that the standard solutions to the economic crisis proposed by our politicians and mainstream economists – stimulus, cuts, debt, low interest rates, encouraging consumption – are false options that will not work. Deeper changes are needed, such as a “Robin Hood” tax on financial transactions; reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act in the US; implementing a ban on high-frequency “flash” trading. The “too big to fail” banks must be broken up, downsized and made to serve the people, the economy and society again. The financial fraudsters responsible for the 2008 meltdown must be brought to justice. Then there is the long-term mother of all solutions: a total rethinking of western consumerism that throws into question how we measure progress.
If the current economic woes in Europe and the US spiral into a prolonged global recession, people’s encampments will become a permanent fixtures at financial districts and outside stock markets around the world. Until our demands are met and the global economic regime is fundamentally reformed, our tent cities will keep popping up.
Bravo to those courageous souls in the encampment on New York’s Liberty Street. Every night that #OCCUPYWALLSTREET continues will escalate the possibility of a full-fledged global uprising against business as usual.
Friday, September 16, 2011
AFRICAN AMERICAN PARADE
Come March With The Transport Workers Union Local 100 In This Years AFRICAN AMERICAN PARADE
WHERE 112th Street And Adam Clayton Powell (7th Avenue)
WHEN Sunday September 18, 2011
TIME 11:00 Am
WHERE 112th Street And Adam Clayton Powell (7th Avenue)
WHEN Sunday September 18, 2011
TIME 11:00 Am
Friday, September 9, 2011
Labor Day Parade
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All out for the 2011 Labor Day Parade
This Saturday will be the 2011 Labor Day Parade in NYC. Organized labor from all sectors of the economy will stand together to express our pride. For TWU Local 100, this day of standing with our Brothers and Sisters will also kick off our fight for a fair contract. We will turn out to tell the world: "Shared sacrifice" is a scam! We are not going to be scammed out of the gains that generations of transit workers fought and sacrificed for!
This year will be a showing for TWU unity. We will be joined in the parade by other TWU locals in the NYC area and by the TWU International's campaign bus. We will also be distributing a Workers Rights Are Human Rights t-shirt provided by the International.
This is an event members should turn out for. This is our contract we are talking about. We look forward to seeing you there, along with the members you turn out from your location or division.
Join the TWU Local 100 contingent at 10:45 am
on E. 45 St between Fifth Ave & Vanderbilt
food and refreshments provided
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All out for the 2011 Labor Day Parade
This Saturday will be the 2011 Labor Day Parade in NYC. Organized labor from all sectors of the economy will stand together to express our pride. For TWU Local 100, this day of standing with our Brothers and Sisters will also kick off our fight for a fair contract. We will turn out to tell the world: "Shared sacrifice" is a scam! We are not going to be scammed out of the gains that generations of transit workers fought and sacrificed for!
This year will be a showing for TWU unity. We will be joined in the parade by other TWU locals in the NYC area and by the TWU International's campaign bus. We will also be distributing a Workers Rights Are Human Rights t-shirt provided by the International.
This is an event members should turn out for. This is our contract we are talking about. We look forward to seeing you there, along with the members you turn out from your location or division.
Join the TWU Local 100 contingent at 10:45 am
on E. 45 St between Fifth Ave & Vanderbilt
food and refreshments provided
Issued By:
Transport Workers Union, Local 100
1700 Broadway 2nd floor, New York NY 10019
212.873.6000 | www.twulocal100.org
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Labor Day Parade
Mobilizing Tools
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Need more Labor Day flyers for your members? You can download a pdf here.
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