Working conditions

If the MTA continues to intensify the pace of our work while denying us the workers a meaningful say in how the work is done - where a worker is physically and emotionally tested - our bosses in TWU Local 100 should not hesitate to deal with the workplace problems directly as they have often done in the past. We here in why did you join the union say the bosses must deal with workplace problems and they should stop telling workers to file grievances.

Grievances are sort of an illusion to the worker power as the old idiom states - that things to change, the more they stay the same. Based on that idiom we have to reevaluate our relationship with our bosses in TWU Local 100 to be held accountable to promises that were never delivered.

TWU Local 100 bosses have ceded control over workplace to the management - we the members want better working conditions which are critical to the memberships well being. Those bosses led us down the primrose path with their promises however our working conditions pace are intensifying making our workplace unsafe. It gives an impression that our employer the MTA is operating as if it is a private entity such as a corporate in pursuit of profits. From that principle of social order as we are aware is that maximum profits requires maximum corporate control of our workplace which in turn means that management must be free to control us. 

We here in why did you join the union believe we the membership must be able to interfere with this management control. The bosses of TWU Local 100 have clearly ceded that control, we aim to retake it back.