TWU

  • Transit Workers Look to Bust the Austerity Box

    Like public sector workers everywhere, New York City’s transit workers face a withering attack on our compensation and our collective organization. The conditions for austerity began long ago, but resistance to these political decisions is possible, though not easy.

  • Public Employees Need the Right To Strike
    John Samuelsen
    Jan 4 2012 - 11:17am

    Both Republican and Democratic governors have bludgeoned public workers into massive cuts. Maybe, while we’re under such a ferocious attack, this is the time for unions to look past the right to bargain and assert the right to strike.

  • Oil Pipeline Fight Roils Unions
    Jenny Brown
    Nov 7 2011 - 10:16am

    U.S. unions are bitterly split on whether an oil pipeline should be built between Canada and Texas. The conflict has hamstrung the Blue-Green Alliance, which unifies union and environmental efforts, as transit unions argue labor must look beyond its own interests.

  • NY Millionaires' Tax Back in Spotlight

    New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo attempted to evict “Occupy Albany” this week from its home base in a state-owned park in the capital, leading activists to dub him “Governor 1 percent.”

  • Unions Rally to Wall Street Occupation
    Penny Lewis
    Sep 30 2011 - 11:18am

    Protesters united under the banner of "We are the 99 percent" have occupied the Wall Street area for two weeks. Now several New York unions are planning rallies in support, taking a stand against runaway corporate power.

  • Compulsory Solidarity in New York’s Transit Union
    Steve Downs
    Nov 10 2010 - 4:40pm

    Members of Transport Workers Union Local 100 in New York voted narrowly to assess themselves $5 a week to pay for medical insurance for laid-off members. But instead of building solidarity, the proposal and has produced a storm of criticism and deepened divisions within the local.

  • As Layoffs Hit, NY Transit Workers Push for $5 Worth of Solidarity

    Sunday would have been Sabrina Greenwood’s five-year employment anniversary in New York’s transit system. But she won’t make it: She’ll be laid off Friday. Her union, Transport Workers Local 100, is trying to soften the blow by funding the laid-off workers’ health care with a special $5-a-week assessment from its 35,000 active members.

  • New York Musters to Fight as Layoffs Sweep Mass Transit

    The recession has hammered transit agencies across the country. Some 700 New York City transit workers—mostly bus operators and station agents—have been laid off since May and another 200–300 may be gone by the end of the summer.

  • As Budget D-Day Nears, NY Transit Workers Hose Down MTA's Dirty Tricks with a Pool Party

    With huge service cuts and layoffs looming, New York’s transit crisis is the thin edge of a wedge threatening to up-end reliable bus and subway service in communities nationwide.

  • 'Take Back Our Union' Slate Wins New York Bus & Subway Local

    Chalk up another win for union reformers in New York. After victories by reform slates in two Teamster locals, 814 (movers and auction houses) and 804 (UPS), reformers in the Take Back Our Union slate won control of Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union on December 7. TWU 100 represents 38,000 bus and subway workers in New York City and Westchester County.