Mass Membership Meeting

Good afternoon MaBstoa, NYCT, MTA Bus
I was pleased to see old and new colleagues at our annual Mass Membership meeting. What was evidently powerful was our locals work in other states fighting against collective bargaining tyranny! (Ohio, Wisconsin)
If we the membership don't realize it, together we make a difference in all things. Our fight now is to get a fair contract for our members, but the real fight must be to re-educate our young members on how to fight!
To many of us inherited benefits and rights that were won through former struggles, but we forgot to memorialize those struggles for our youth to continue! Now benefits are expected without works! Young people if we don't involve ourselves, these so called benefits will have an expiration date.
My role to you now is to continue fighting, while teaching you how to fight!
The institution of Unionism must survive!
For all who attended the Mass Membership meeting thanks for coming. For those who couldn't make it, thanks for pushing others to go

In Solidarity
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100