Chris Tobin

MTA approved the release of its regular board meeting minutes of March 23, 2011 on April 27, 2011. While you review the minutes you find one member of TWU Local 100 was among the public speakers, Chris Tobin. Specifically upon further scrutiny on page seven under section two - public comment period.

It is incomprehensible why a train operator, Chris Tobin a member of TWU Local 100 will applaud the Board and MTA as many of you feel betrayed by his constant publicity stunts of befriending the management. We wonder why - there is no coherent explanation especially in the face of TWU Local 100 members who are still laid off. 

Maybe it is indication from the rapid transit operation department under Kevin Harrington a known puppet of Steve Downs the grand vizier that approve of Chris Tobin’s views due to the fact that their department was not touched in the layoff of 2010 while other departments felt the pain of layoffs.

As to the moral issue let us in why did you join the union ask a rhetorical question to Chris Tobin. Could you live with yourself if you had the power in your hands to bring about a stop to the layoffs of 2010 to the TWU Local 100 members? What have you done to aid your fellow TWU Local 100 members who were laid off besides contributing to the robber baron solidarity fund? Remember those hundreds of laid off members are the best that TWU Local 100 has to offer - they are struggling in their daily lives, they are still out there waiting for recall - where’s the morality in that?