Transport Workers Union of America

Still Hesitant On A Subway Death Solution? Check Out What Happened Over The Past Five Days

The growing controversy over subway deaths has stricken all parties involved in the transportation scene. The MTA, stuck with little cash to maneuver, has provided flat solutions, including platform doors and laser alarm systems, that are getting nowhere because, given, the agency can't get past t ... More >>

Another Subway Death Solution: NYPD Tracking Of Mentally Ill?

Okay, the platform doors, laser alert system and the advice for conductors to slow down were one thing. But this goes a little above and beyond that. Yesterday, news came that the NYPD, in accordance with the Health Department, has tracked down twenty-five mentally ill patients that have been deeme ... More >>

At Emergency Subway Death Hearing, Transport Union Says MTA Too Cheap to Save Lives

Representatives from the city's Transport Workers Union say that the solutions to reducing subway deaths are simple, but the MTA doesn't want to spend the money. At yesterday's emergency hearing on subway deaths called by city councilman James Vacca, the MTA unveiled a large-scale public education ... More >>

New Alarm System Of Lasers Is MTA's Latest Proposal To Stop Subway Deaths

We've heard about the platform doors on the L train. We've told you about the Transport Workers Union Local telling conductors to hit the brakes more. And we've gone over the 'emergency meeting' called by City Councilman James Vacca next week to discuss what the hell the MTA and straphangers alike c ... More >>

NYC Councilman Wants To Get Serious About Subway Deaths

All power to him. Yesterday, City Councilman and Transportation Committee chair James Vacca called for an "emergency hearing" on a problem that cannot escape the headlines: the increasingly high tendency of straphangers to, either purposefully or by matter of coercion, come to their deaths on the s ... More >>

In Wake Of Subway Deaths, Conductors Are Told By Union To Slow Down

This may work a bit better than those experimental sliding doors on the L train we told you about yesterday.With the deaths of Ki-Suck Han and Sunando Sen fresh in our mind, the Transport Workers Union Local 100 has advised its members to halt subway speeds to about 10mph as the trains arrive in the ... More >>

At Con-Ed Lockout Protest, Unions Embrace Class War

The Con Edison lockout of 8,500 workers is now well into its third week, and there doesn't appear to be any end is in sight. Negotiations between the utility giant and members of the Utility Workers Union of America Local 1-2 resume today, but sources inside the negotiations say so recent talks ha ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Affiliates Chain Subway Gates Open For Fare Strike

A group calling itself the "Rank and File Initiative" claimed credit yesterday for opening up more than 20 subway stations throughout the city for free entry. Chaining open emergency gates at stations on the F, L, R, Q, 3, and 6 lines during rush hour yesterday morning, the anonymous activists post ... More >>

New York's Ugliest Rat Calls Seventh Avenue Station Home

via Rat Free Subways​Let's face it -- as New Yorkers, we have certainly seen our fair share of ugly rats. They're in the parks, in the subway, and if you're particularly unlucky, in your apartment building. But this rat -- this rat is the ugliest, at least according to the Transit Workers Un ... More >>

Transport Workers Union Local 100 Disputes Coverage of MTA Contract Negotiations

​If you have been keeping up with the tabloids, you might think that contract negotiations between the MTA and the Transport Workers Union Local 100 have come to a screeching halt. You might even be tempted to believe that the union is going to strike, leaving you stranded in the cold on an ... More >>

So WTF Are MTA and Transport Workers Union Contract Negotiations, Anyway?

Despite the rumors mongered here, here, and here, contract negotiations between the MTA and the employees' union are actually just going fine, thank you very much. And, no: There probably won't be a strike of bus or subway workers, so you will have to go to work with that awful hangover. (The one yo ... More >>

Enjoy Looking At Subway Rats? Play 'Rate My Rat'

Did you enjoy looking at that picture of the giant rat in the Bronx Foot Locker? Yes? First, ew, and second, we've got the perfect quest for you. As part of their "New Yorkers Deserve A Rat-Free Subway" campaign, the city's Transport Workers Union has started a "Rate My Rat" contest.

UC Davis Chancellor Announces Pepper Spray Review; Japan Earthquake; Violent Protests in Egypt

After footage of a police officer dousing students with pepper spray went viral, UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi announced she is forming a "task force" to look into the incident. She told CNN, "We really want to look into this very carefully and take action ... make sure that it will never happen ... More >>

UAW Endorses Occupy Wall Street; Massive March Planned Today

This morning the UAW -- the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America -- issued an official endorsement of Occupy Wall Street, which they deem "a movement for economic and political justice." They've said they'll commit resources to the movement ... More >>

Transport Workers Union Denied Injunction Against City's Use of Bus Drivers to Transport Arrested Protesters; Suit Not Dismissed

Today the Transport Workers Union, which last week voted unanimously in support of Occupy Wall Street, went to court to fight against the city's use of city bus drivers to transport arrested protesters. Following the Brooklyn Bridge arrests on Saturday, the Union said the NYPD had commandeered numer ... More >>

Bus Drivers Should Not Have to Transport Arrested Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Says TWU

In the aftermath of more than 700 reported arrests of protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, Occupy Wall Street continues to occupy a large portion of the news. This video has been circulating of what seems to be a very young girl (we've heard 13 years old, though that's not confirmed) being ... More >>

Transport Workers Union Votes Unanimously to Support Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street is in its 13th day, with support growing among factions veering from the "grungy unemployed hippie stereotype." There's the event led by two CUNY professors to protest the treatment of the protesters at the hands of the NYPD (Critical Mass has written they'll join in this rally, w ... More >>

Coming Soon To Brooklyn: Tuberculosis!

​Two workers in Greenpoint have contracted tuberculosis, Brooklyn Paper is reporting, cuing mass panic in northern Brooklyn and a mass exodus to Poland. Well, not quite yet. Still, it's not a comforting thought -- especially in light of the city's ongoing bedbug problem. We're dirty, dirty peo ... More >>

Update: MTA "Fixes" One Problem, Creates Another -- and So It Goes

​As of yesterday, the MTA planned to lay off two bus drivers currently at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a humanitarian move, perhaps realizing that the stress of war need not be coupled with the stress of job loss -- or that they would be getting some very bad publicity -- the MTA changed it ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Twitpic via DanaBoscorelli. Up, Up and Awry! The Balloon Boy and his wacky father helped keep our minds off the real world, which sucked even more than usual. In national news, the Nobel Peace Prize continued its deadly rampage across America. But don't despair, rightbloggers: President O ... More >>

Threatened Bus, Subway Worker Slowdown Seems Not to Be Happening, Yet (Update: Or Is It?)

The Transit Workers Union us supposed to be holding a "Day of Outrage" today. The beef is that TWU workers received an 11 percent raise in arbitration, but MTA is crying poor and is suing to overturn the ruling. The Dies Irae is supposed to include a work slowdown by bus and subway workers, but w ... More >>

Back to School for Bus Hoods

In a different kind of back to school special, a pair of brothers who served as top officials of the union representing city school bus drivers pleaded guilty today to extortion charges in Manhattan federal court. Nick and Paul Maddalone became, respectively, the fourth and fifth high-ranking e ... More >>

City Prepares for Taxi Strike

Cyclist Hurt? Blame the Transit Strike

A Day Without White People

On May Day, the masses rose up in New York. But where were the white peaceniks?

Progressives Use Frustration as Fuel for Action

The Fonz's Pitch

Open door policy

NYC Transit Workers Reject Contract

Transit Union Strikes a Deal

Welcome Back, "Terrorists" and "Thugs"

Report: Strike End in Sight

The Strike is Over

You're Walking, They're Talking

Union Explains Why It Called the Strike

Tinkering With the Taylor Law

Strikebound

MTA Strike: The Politics of No-Tomorrow

Transit Strike Is a Bike Rider's Dream

Fault Line

Deal or no deal, transit workers want more respect, less punishment

Checks and No Balance

The story is Bush's spying, not the story's messenger

Transit Talks: Death Un-Benefit

Transit Breaks

A Strike -- Partially

Transit Showdown

Helping Bloomberg?

Fulani aide sues union

Democrats Miss Key Endorsement

Harlemites March

Anti-War Rally Eyes Troubles at Home

Labor’s Loneliest Battles

New Survey Finds Union Self-Help Programs Point Way in Addiction Struggles

Mixed Signals

City Promises No Driverless Trains, but Sets Track for Automatic Subway

Underground Rumblings

A Modern Militant Vies to Revive the Transit Union