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The transit workers' contract was up for renewal in April 1980. Negotiations began on February 4, with the TWU initially demanding a 21-month contract with a 30% wage increase; they justified the hike by claiming that the cost of living had gone up 53% since the last contract negotiation, and their contract did not account for changes in the cost of living. [1]
In addition to overpaying workers and overspending, politicians and trade unions had forced the MTA to hire more workers than was needed. In 2010, an accountant found that the project was hiring 200 extra workers, at a cost of $1,000 per worker per day, for no apparent reason.
A closed entrance to the 45th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.. The 2005 New York City transit strike, held from December 20 through 22, 2005, was the third strike ever by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 against New York City's Transit Authority and involved between 32,000 and 34,000 strikers.
[5] [6] He took a series of blue-collar jobs including as a welder at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Toussaint took a job at New York City Transit (NYCT) as a car cleaner in 1984 and became a NYCT track worker in 1985. In 1995, Toussaint became the Chairperson of the 1,900 member TWU Local 100 Track Division, a position held until being elected ...
But the MTA says there is “absolutely no threat” of a walkout. Members of Transport Workers Union Locals 2001 and 2055, which represent around 600 car inspectors, cleaners and carpenters on ...
Mayor Adams is considering appointing the head of New York’s largest transit worker union to a seat on the MTA board, according to sources with knowledge of the deliberations. John Samuelsen ...
The night before December 31, 1967, the NYCTA and the TWU made an agreement to avoid a strike. The deal gave NYCTA workers the ability to retire with about half-pay after twenty years if the employee was over fifty years old. This would later cause problems, as large numbers of transit workers would retire to take advantage of these benefits.
One MTA worker was forced to retire and another faces discipline after investigators at the transit agency’s inspector general’s office caught them buying stolen goods, drinking at their ...