Happy Thanksgiving To All!
We will Start re-picking December 5th & 6th ( Incumbents) We will start re-picking from PEG# 1933
Crossover Pick will be on December 8th
Consolidated will be from December 9th to December 23rd
Sorry For all inconveniences! Seniority was preserved By Your Union
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
System Pick Stopped In the Department Of Buses
Today the system pick was stopped because the pick Dispatcher at 100St Depot tried to reopen Memorial Day week which was closed on October 25th 2011 which would of been a violation of our pick practices and overall seniority between the TA and MaBstoa. Dwayne Ruffin Chairman of 100st Depot did his job when he caught the issue and brought it to Richard Davis Manhattan Division Chair who stopped the pick. The pick will have to be restarted from October 25th PEG# 1932
Brian Clarke Vice President of MaBstoa Ultimatly ordered the pick redone due to the seniority issue. All Division Chairs TAS/MaBstoa notified.
Stay tuned for more developments!
Brian Clarke Vice President of MaBstoa Ultimatly ordered the pick redone due to the seniority issue. All Division Chairs TAS/MaBstoa notified.
Stay tuned for more developments!
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Something To Think About
Brothers and Sisters
An opportunity has been created with the Wall-Street protests. As we get closer to our contract expiration the membership must participate. Many of us are only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds. This must change for the benefit of our children's future.
In reading many of the posts that's out there, our brother and sisters are asleep lull-abided by the media (negative)
Do we as a collective really understand what conditioning is? Remember the movie the matrix? Everything seemed to be real, but it wasn't! How real is the occupy wall street struggle to you? Do you believe that we are the 99%? If the answer is yes, then we should be supportive of the social struggles! What are the social struggles? Racism, Classism, Education, Housing just to mention a few. Our personal social struggle within Transit is assaults and managerial persecution. How do we change the tide? Get involved, and if you're a representative accept the help that is offered!
November 15th 2011 is the day we will start negotiations. What ever your issues, be there to support the leadership. 7th Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Street
As a footnote, be mindful of the folks who try to turn things political for the sake of their own self interests, those actions are not building blocks for our fight ahead!
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100
An opportunity has been created with the Wall-Street protests. As we get closer to our contract expiration the membership must participate. Many of us are only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds. This must change for the benefit of our children's future.
In reading many of the posts that's out there, our brother and sisters are asleep lull-abided by the media (negative)
Do we as a collective really understand what conditioning is? Remember the movie the matrix? Everything seemed to be real, but it wasn't! How real is the occupy wall street struggle to you? Do you believe that we are the 99%? If the answer is yes, then we should be supportive of the social struggles! What are the social struggles? Racism, Classism, Education, Housing just to mention a few. Our personal social struggle within Transit is assaults and managerial persecution. How do we change the tide? Get involved, and if you're a representative accept the help that is offered!
November 15th 2011 is the day we will start negotiations. What ever your issues, be there to support the leadership. 7th Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Street
As a footnote, be mindful of the folks who try to turn things political for the sake of their own self interests, those actions are not building blocks for our fight ahead!
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
MaBstoa TWU-100
Monday, October 31, 2011
NOVEMBER 3, Court Sentencing For Lady Who Assaulted Bus Operator In The Bronx
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
In Solidarity
Donald Yates
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!
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