Attention all TWU Local 100 Members, This is a reminder that the court case for the Woman who assaulted one of our own will be this Thursday November 3, 2011 @ the Bronx Criminal Court 9:00am It is very important that we show up in numbers
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
Monday, October 31, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Election Rule Change Proposal Will Effect Unions
The Campaign Finance Board Is Proposing Rules That Will Significantly Make It Harder To Do Legislative Advocacy And Communicate To Our Members
Two years ago the charter revision commission introduced a ballot measure to the City Charter: and the rules outlining it were created this spring by the campaign finance board (CFB). The following describes how organizations such as TWU Local 100 will be affected:
What the CFB tried to do:
- Make sure they capture any bad "actors" as they wanted to expose the shams in organizations that support campaigns and verify people who "sneakily" support candidates.
What does this cause?
- A list of overly burdensome issues for organizations that reach out to members by way of flyer, phone and email. Not only are unions affected but many community and non-profit organizations as well.
What do the restrictions say?
- Any Communication such as a flyer, phone call or email attachment, either supporting or opposing candidates within 90 days of an election would have to be filed with the CFB under the new rules.
How does this affect TWU Local 100?
- The campaign finance board sees our members as members of a general public and wants to everything that we send them that contains an elected name or party affiliation. If we urge our members to call City Council, for example, to oppose an issue, we would have to report whether we support or oppose the elected officials we are asking our members to call. Basically by reaching out to our members, they are saying we are trying to influence the general public.
- Currently a form 7A is filled out to file expenditures; it is a simple one page document. But, the new forms proposed by the CFB will need to be sent in 11 times a year and we will only have 24 hours to report outreach to our members.
- All receipts surrounding a campaign or even just mentioning a candidate or elected official will have to be reported.
- We will have to submit the wages of our members who simply come to pick up flyers and conduct basic outreach from our union hall; unless each person "authorized" to flyer our members holds the title of supervisor.
- Members who pay dues in the amount $1,000.00 or more in one year- whether they are reconciling dues or their normal dues payment amounts to this- will have to be reported.
What is not affected?
- Newsletters to members are exempt.
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr's: The New York Times.
- Media Companies are exempt such as Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
What is Proposed? How Can we stop this?
- There will be a hearing conducted for this issue on October 27, 2011 At 11Am and members from organizations labor and non-for profit are urged to testify. Members in working clothes (not union clothes) should be prepped with some talking points about the issue.
- Petition cards will be provided please call (212) 873-6000 x2137 for more information.
Two years ago the charter revision commission introduced a ballot measure to the City Charter: and the rules outlining it were created this spring by the campaign finance board (CFB). The following describes how organizations such as TWU Local 100 will be affected:
What the CFB tried to do:
- Make sure they capture any bad "actors" as they wanted to expose the shams in organizations that support campaigns and verify people who "sneakily" support candidates.
What does this cause?
- A list of overly burdensome issues for organizations that reach out to members by way of flyer, phone and email. Not only are unions affected but many community and non-profit organizations as well.
What do the restrictions say?
- Any Communication such as a flyer, phone call or email attachment, either supporting or opposing candidates within 90 days of an election would have to be filed with the CFB under the new rules.
How does this affect TWU Local 100?
- The campaign finance board sees our members as members of a general public and wants to everything that we send them that contains an elected name or party affiliation. If we urge our members to call City Council, for example, to oppose an issue, we would have to report whether we support or oppose the elected officials we are asking our members to call. Basically by reaching out to our members, they are saying we are trying to influence the general public.
- Currently a form 7A is filled out to file expenditures; it is a simple one page document. But, the new forms proposed by the CFB will need to be sent in 11 times a year and we will only have 24 hours to report outreach to our members.
- All receipts surrounding a campaign or even just mentioning a candidate or elected official will have to be reported.
- We will have to submit the wages of our members who simply come to pick up flyers and conduct basic outreach from our union hall; unless each person "authorized" to flyer our members holds the title of supervisor.
- Members who pay dues in the amount $1,000.00 or more in one year- whether they are reconciling dues or their normal dues payment amounts to this- will have to be reported.
What is not affected?
- Newsletters to members are exempt.
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr's: The New York Times.
- Media Companies are exempt such as Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
What is Proposed? How Can we stop this?
- There will be a hearing conducted for this issue on October 27, 2011 At 11Am and members from organizations labor and non-for profit are urged to testify. Members in working clothes (not union clothes) should be prepped with some talking points about the issue.
- Petition cards will be provided please call (212) 873-6000 x2137 for more information.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Daily News Article On Assaults
Passenger attacks on bus drivers soaring, new MTA statistics show
BY Pete Donohue
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, October 24th 2011, 4:00 AM
Ron Antonelli/News
Bus drivers are facing more attacks from abusive passengers this year.
Passenger assaults on bus drivers are up 20% this year - with seven attacks on average every month, according to MTA statistics.
There were 69 physical assaults in the first nine months of this year - compared with 57 during the same stretch last year, the statistics reveal.
"It's dangerous," said Bx9 driver Maria Hogan, who was slugged by an irate Bronx passenger on Sept. 10. "People think they can just get away with abusing you verbally or physically."
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority didn't offer any theories for the rise in attacks on drivers. But union chiefs partly blame management.
Some supervisors instruct drivers to challenge riders who don't pay, resulting in dangerous confrontations with volatile fare-beaters, said Willie Rivera, a Local 100 bus division chairman.
"They're putting our members in harm's way," Rivera said. "If you want to challenge people who don't pay, we've always said they should go get the cops ... or hire enforcement agents."
Local 100 organizer J.P. Patafio theorized that drivers face a more hostile public on account of high unemployment, service cuts and fare hikes.
MTA spokesman Charles Seaton said drivers are trained to "gently remind" riders of the fare but not challenge them.
"Someone may be thinking of something else and forget to pay," Seaton said. "You certainly have to say something, making it as light as possible."
Union officials say the case of Jamel Wright, a driver on the M35 route, highlights drivers' predicament.
Wright was written up in August for allegedly being too lax on fare-beaters. Management staffers doing sidewalk surveillance in August accused Wright of waving three passengers onboard at a Randalls Island bus stop and remaining silent while four others entered without paying.
Wright initially faced a suspension, but the penalty was reduced to refresher training.
On Oct. 11, Wright reminded a man to pay the fare. The man punched Wright repeatedly in the face, union and management officials said.
The M35 is particularly troublesome, union officials said. The Randalls Island stop is outside a homeless shelter, and riders who are broke, volatile or both are not uncommon, they said.
The most extreme case of violence against bus drivers in recent years was the December 2008 murder of Edwin Thomas on Brooklyn's B46 bus route. An ex-con stabbed Thomas in a dispute over a free transfer.
After Thomas' murder, the MTA installed safety partitions in a limited number of buses.
In Hogan's case, her attacker was enraged the bus didn't pull over at his regular stop, which was closed for construction. He punched her in the face and tried to pull her from her seat.
Emotionally distraught, Hogan hasn't returned to work.
"I've been assaulted twice now," she said. "My biggest fear is what's going to happen when I come back. Is it going to be the third time?"
pdonohue@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/10/24/2011-10-24_in_harms_way_li_attacks_on_bus_drivers_up_20_over_last_yr_li_mta_fueling_farebea.html#ixzz1bhRJeFRp
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Steve Downs
Chair, T/O Division of TWU 100
BY Pete Donohue
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, October 24th 2011, 4:00 AM
Ron Antonelli/News
Bus drivers are facing more attacks from abusive passengers this year.
Passenger assaults on bus drivers are up 20% this year - with seven attacks on average every month, according to MTA statistics.
There were 69 physical assaults in the first nine months of this year - compared with 57 during the same stretch last year, the statistics reveal.
"It's dangerous," said Bx9 driver Maria Hogan, who was slugged by an irate Bronx passenger on Sept. 10. "People think they can just get away with abusing you verbally or physically."
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority didn't offer any theories for the rise in attacks on drivers. But union chiefs partly blame management.
Some supervisors instruct drivers to challenge riders who don't pay, resulting in dangerous confrontations with volatile fare-beaters, said Willie Rivera, a Local 100 bus division chairman.
"They're putting our members in harm's way," Rivera said. "If you want to challenge people who don't pay, we've always said they should go get the cops ... or hire enforcement agents."
Local 100 organizer J.P. Patafio theorized that drivers face a more hostile public on account of high unemployment, service cuts and fare hikes.
MTA spokesman Charles Seaton said drivers are trained to "gently remind" riders of the fare but not challenge them.
"Someone may be thinking of something else and forget to pay," Seaton said. "You certainly have to say something, making it as light as possible."
Union officials say the case of Jamel Wright, a driver on the M35 route, highlights drivers' predicament.
Wright was written up in August for allegedly being too lax on fare-beaters. Management staffers doing sidewalk surveillance in August accused Wright of waving three passengers onboard at a Randalls Island bus stop and remaining silent while four others entered without paying.
Wright initially faced a suspension, but the penalty was reduced to refresher training.
On Oct. 11, Wright reminded a man to pay the fare. The man punched Wright repeatedly in the face, union and management officials said.
The M35 is particularly troublesome, union officials said. The Randalls Island stop is outside a homeless shelter, and riders who are broke, volatile or both are not uncommon, they said.
The most extreme case of violence against bus drivers in recent years was the December 2008 murder of Edwin Thomas on Brooklyn's B46 bus route. An ex-con stabbed Thomas in a dispute over a free transfer.
After Thomas' murder, the MTA installed safety partitions in a limited number of buses.
In Hogan's case, her attacker was enraged the bus didn't pull over at his regular stop, which was closed for construction. He punched her in the face and tried to pull her from her seat.
Emotionally distraught, Hogan hasn't returned to work.
"I've been assaulted twice now," she said. "My biggest fear is what's going to happen when I come back. Is it going to be the third time?"
pdonohue@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/10/24/2011-10-24_in_harms_way_li_attacks_on_bus_drivers_up_20_over_last_yr_li_mta_fueling_farebea.html#ixzz1bhRJeFRp
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Steve Downs
Chair, T/O Division of TWU 100
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
MaBstoa Contract Demands Meeting
Yesterdays Div1 meeting offered many contract demands which made sense! Brian Clarke Vice President of MaBstoa read the list of demands from previous years, and took new demands from the membership. All the demands were good and reflect abuses the Authority has imposed! If you missed this meeting, Div2 will be holding their meeting on Wednesday October 26 at 3035 Corlear Ave American Legion Hall between 230th and 231st St.
As a Foot Note Div1 is the Manhattan Division of MaBstoa
Div2 is the Bronx Division of MaBstoa
Stay Tuned!
As a Foot Note Div1 is the Manhattan Division of MaBstoa
Div2 is the Bronx Division of MaBstoa
Stay Tuned!
Monday, October 10, 2011
MaBstoa Contractual Pick Practices
Brothers and Sister of MaBstoa;
Now that this General Pick is Underway, I wanted to take this time to explain what the MaBstoa Pick Practice is, and what it means to you.
The difference between the picks in MaBstoa and TA Surface is as follows
1) In TA Surface in order to be able to pick on your scheduled pick time, you must either be off to pick or be granted a Change of assignment which is not guaranteed! Change of Day off's and use of AVA's VAD's and OTO is subject to the contractual quota for the Depot.
2) MaBstoa Division1 (Manhattan) 50% of all picking conflicts get a mandatory Change of assignment, while the other 50% get pick reliefs.
An example of this would be 10 Operators picking who have conflicts between their tours and pick times= 5 Change of assignments and 2 Pick reliefs to cover the other 5 conflicts
3) MaBstoa Division2 (Bronx) 50% of all picking Conflicts get pick reliefs through a pick car and driver to cover the Bronx, because it's so remote.
MaBstoa as a whole pick extras up to a combined 72 hours= Run + Extra
The Above is informational, and considered the MaBstoa Contractual Pick practices. I omitted the practice of vacation relief for reasons of space. That will be another post. Stay Tuned!
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100
Now that this General Pick is Underway, I wanted to take this time to explain what the MaBstoa Pick Practice is, and what it means to you.
The difference between the picks in MaBstoa and TA Surface is as follows
1) In TA Surface in order to be able to pick on your scheduled pick time, you must either be off to pick or be granted a Change of assignment which is not guaranteed! Change of Day off's and use of AVA's VAD's and OTO is subject to the contractual quota for the Depot.
2) MaBstoa Division1 (Manhattan) 50% of all picking conflicts get a mandatory Change of assignment, while the other 50% get pick reliefs.
An example of this would be 10 Operators picking who have conflicts between their tours and pick times= 5 Change of assignments and 2 Pick reliefs to cover the other 5 conflicts
3) MaBstoa Division2 (Bronx) 50% of all picking Conflicts get pick reliefs through a pick car and driver to cover the Bronx, because it's so remote.
MaBstoa as a whole pick extras up to a combined 72 hours= Run + Extra
The Above is informational, and considered the MaBstoa Contractual Pick practices. I omitted the practice of vacation relief for reasons of space. That will be another post. Stay Tuned!
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Support The Move For Social Change
Brothers and Sisters;
We are witnessing a revolt not seen since the 60's and 70's.
Occupy Wall Street As it is being called is the spark that's driving this new revolution!
We are all part of this movement!
Support your Union and the whole Labor movement, support the social movement that is sick and tired of the 1% controlling the 99%
Don't think it's your fight? Well it is! It's about our children's future
Together We Make A Difference
We are witnessing a revolt not seen since the 60's and 70's.
Occupy Wall Street As it is being called is the spark that's driving this new revolution!
We are all part of this movement!
Support your Union and the whole Labor movement, support the social movement that is sick and tired of the 1% controlling the 99%
Don't think it's your fight? Well it is! It's about our children's future
Together We Make A Difference
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Stand With The Wall Street Protesters! There Fight Is Our Fight!
TWU Local 100 October 1, 2011
Community and Labor March on Wall Street
against corporate greed & big banks
4:30pm Wed, Oct 5
gather at 250 B'way | march to Zuccotti Park
Union workers & community members impacted by the economic crisis demand that Wall Street and the wealthiest New Yorkers pay their fair share of taxes.
We march on Wall Street to welcome the protesters and show the face of New Yorkers hardest hit by corporate greed!
Stand together and continue what we started in Wisconsin!
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100
Community and Labor March on Wall Street
against corporate greed & big banks
4:30pm Wed, Oct 5
gather at 250 B'way | march to Zuccotti Park
Union workers & community members impacted by the economic crisis demand that Wall Street and the wealthiest New Yorkers pay their fair share of taxes.
We march on Wall Street to welcome the protesters and show the face of New Yorkers hardest hit by corporate greed!
Stand together and continue what we started in Wisconsin!
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100
Sunday, October 2, 2011
How The Tide Was Changed
Brothers and Sisters;
I spoke many times about the war that was brewing within the our ranks, and the MTA. What nobody has visioned, is the war that is getting ready to take place between poor folks and rich folks.
Wisconsin was the ground Zero for the final attacks against the labor movement, but what the powers that be didn't take into account, was that we have resolve!
As a TWU Local 100 Union Rep, one of things that I have noticed, is that many of our failures is due in part to the seeds that were planted long ago!
The idea was to collapse the unions or the movement known as the labor movement. To be successful in that, you would have to grasp this underlining principle, which boils down to a simple question, If we were in a house, and I thought it was on fire, but you didn't, would it be okay for me to lie to you or even use force to get you out of the house? The answer to that question would be he'll no, but why not?
And the answer to that question would be what if I was wrong!
Individualism in America is so hard wired into our DNA. We want to make our own decisions, even if it means making mistakes. We don't want people telling us what to do. But there are such powers that are doing just that because they think we the people are to stupid to make our own decisions. Besides that fact, these powers have enough money not to be happy, but to buy an entire political system. Members of congress should be required to wear NASCAR uniforms so they would have to wear all their sponsors for all to see.
The powers that be use wealth to co-opt anyone who could have any impact on popular culture or public opinion. Newspapers, actors, journalists, publishers, politicians, business people, unions- you name it.
The idea was to be able to control the media as well as any other voice Americans trusted. To accomplish this things were planted in the most fertile of minds, which means children. But it wasn't enough to simply plant this new ideology. For it to blossom, it had to grow without being challenged. As a consequence the disappearance of rights and laws that were fought for including the civil rights struggle and the labor movement were removed from the classroom. Schools now teach American history through the lens of imperialism and aggression. Instead of social studies, children were taught studies in social justice, with UNIONS repeatedly being shown as the bad guys!
This has been going on for decades. The students subjected to those propaganda's are now adults. They're everywhere you look- business, the media, government, even teaching successive generations of kids in our schools.
You may ask couldn't this be turned around? Could these folks be deprogramed? And my answer would be I don't think so, because they're completely immune to anything that deviates from their ideological perception of reality and what they have been taught is the real truth. The lens they look through life at has forever been altered. It's both terrifying and brilliant in it's totality. But as long as we have people who are conscience we can teach the youth of today and plant the seeds that will continue in our progressive struggles.
We have to think and plan well ahead to achieve this!
Brothers and Sisters we must all be on the same page in order to turn this thing around. Remember together we make a difference in all things.
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100
I spoke many times about the war that was brewing within the our ranks, and the MTA. What nobody has visioned, is the war that is getting ready to take place between poor folks and rich folks.
Wisconsin was the ground Zero for the final attacks against the labor movement, but what the powers that be didn't take into account, was that we have resolve!
As a TWU Local 100 Union Rep, one of things that I have noticed, is that many of our failures is due in part to the seeds that were planted long ago!
The idea was to collapse the unions or the movement known as the labor movement. To be successful in that, you would have to grasp this underlining principle, which boils down to a simple question, If we were in a house, and I thought it was on fire, but you didn't, would it be okay for me to lie to you or even use force to get you out of the house? The answer to that question would be he'll no, but why not?
And the answer to that question would be what if I was wrong!
Individualism in America is so hard wired into our DNA. We want to make our own decisions, even if it means making mistakes. We don't want people telling us what to do. But there are such powers that are doing just that because they think we the people are to stupid to make our own decisions. Besides that fact, these powers have enough money not to be happy, but to buy an entire political system. Members of congress should be required to wear NASCAR uniforms so they would have to wear all their sponsors for all to see.
The powers that be use wealth to co-opt anyone who could have any impact on popular culture or public opinion. Newspapers, actors, journalists, publishers, politicians, business people, unions- you name it.
The idea was to be able to control the media as well as any other voice Americans trusted. To accomplish this things were planted in the most fertile of minds, which means children. But it wasn't enough to simply plant this new ideology. For it to blossom, it had to grow without being challenged. As a consequence the disappearance of rights and laws that were fought for including the civil rights struggle and the labor movement were removed from the classroom. Schools now teach American history through the lens of imperialism and aggression. Instead of social studies, children were taught studies in social justice, with UNIONS repeatedly being shown as the bad guys!
This has been going on for decades. The students subjected to those propaganda's are now adults. They're everywhere you look- business, the media, government, even teaching successive generations of kids in our schools.
You may ask couldn't this be turned around? Could these folks be deprogramed? And my answer would be I don't think so, because they're completely immune to anything that deviates from their ideological perception of reality and what they have been taught is the real truth. The lens they look through life at has forever been altered. It's both terrifying and brilliant in it's totality. But as long as we have people who are conscience we can teach the youth of today and plant the seeds that will continue in our progressive struggles.
We have to think and plan well ahead to achieve this!
Brothers and Sisters we must all be on the same page in order to turn this thing around. Remember together we make a difference in all things.
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100
Saturday, October 1, 2011
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TWU Local 100 October 1, 2011
Community and Labor March on Wall Street
against corporate greed & big banks
4:30pm Wed, Oct 5
gather at 250 B'way | march to Zuccotti Park
Union workers & community members impacted by the economic crisis demand that Wall Street and the wealthiest New Yorkers pay their fair share of taxes.
We march on Wall Street to welcome the protesters and show the face of New Yorkers hardest hit by corporate greed!
Stand together and continue what we started in Wisconsin!
Click on image for video
Why we are joining the protest: President Samuelsen on Countdown with Keith Olbermann
TWU Local 100 spearheads the fight for good jobs for New Yorkers
On Sept 27 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Local 100 hosted a major conference on revitalizing transit manufacturing in New York. In remarks to conference attendees, which included top execs of the MTA, Congressman Jerry Nadler, and Federal Deputy Secretary of Transportation John Porcari, Local 100 President John Samuelsen said that New York working families - who support the transit system - should have first crack at good transit manufacturing jobs.
To see the video, click here
Upcoming Events
Dec 3
General Membership Assembly
- details coming soon
We're now on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube!
Join the Conversation and "Like" TWU Local 100. Click the icons above.
Issued By:
Transport Workers Union, Local 100
1700 Broadway 2nd floor, New York NY 10019
212.873.6000 | www.twulocal100.org
TWU Local 100 October 1, 2011
Community and Labor March on Wall Street
against corporate greed & big banks
4:30pm Wed, Oct 5
gather at 250 B'way | march to Zuccotti Park
Union workers & community members impacted by the economic crisis demand that Wall Street and the wealthiest New Yorkers pay their fair share of taxes.
We march on Wall Street to welcome the protesters and show the face of New Yorkers hardest hit by corporate greed!
Stand together and continue what we started in Wisconsin!
Click on image for video
Why we are joining the protest: President Samuelsen on Countdown with Keith Olbermann
TWU Local 100 spearheads the fight for good jobs for New Yorkers
On Sept 27 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Local 100 hosted a major conference on revitalizing transit manufacturing in New York. In remarks to conference attendees, which included top execs of the MTA, Congressman Jerry Nadler, and Federal Deputy Secretary of Transportation John Porcari, Local 100 President John Samuelsen said that New York working families - who support the transit system - should have first crack at good transit manufacturing jobs.
To see the video, click here
Upcoming Events
Dec 3
General Membership Assembly
- details coming soon
We're now on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube!
Join the Conversation and "Like" TWU Local 100. Click the icons above.
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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