Main table IV

2012 TWU Local 100 Negotiations

New York City Transit 

Main Table Proposals

January 9, 2012

Thirteenth proposal - We may look into it in the future, counter offer for terminal vacations should be based on the following formula:

Years of Service	Current	Proposed
0-1	One day per month	2 weeks
1-2	One day per month	3 weeks
2-3	One day per month	4 weeks
Over 3	Two days per month	5 weeks
Over 15	2 1/2 days per month	6 weeks
20-25	2 1/2 days per month	3 days per month
25+	2 1/2 days per month	4 days per month

• Terminal vacation pay on any holiday shall be 12 hours instead of the current run pay.
• Terminal vacation pay on any holiday shall get additional 8 hours pay for the day instead of the current no extra 8 hours pay.
• Terminal vacation pay on any holiday will be accrued instead of the current no accrual.

Fourteenth proposal - According to The New York Times the garbage, trash and refuse ‘struggling with the epic task of clearing the 40 tons of trash left behind in the system every day’ - it is clear the cleaners are underpaid. Counter offer raise their current pay by $2. Create a new title of track cleaners and their pay will be above CTA by $5.

Fifteenth proposal - The current apprentice program is not satisfactory, it needs to be expanded to all titles -currently does not cover all titles.

Sixteenth proposal - Counter offer

• Stewards must be allowed time off during working hours to receive and investigate complaints and grievances.
• Stewards must be allowed time off upon notice to their immediate supervisors.
• The NYCTA must pay stewards at their average hourly rates for time spent in grievance handling and arbitration.
• Create new grievance committees, which require additional stewards specifically based on the following formula:

Grievance Committee	Current	Proposed
Health	none	Composed of 9 stewards
Veterans’ Affairs	none	Composed of 9 stewards
Injured on duty	none	Composed of 9 stewards
Assault on duty	none	Composed of 9 stewards
Death on duty	none	Composed of 9 stewards
Spit	none	Composed of 9 stewards
Verbally assaulted	none	Composed of 9 stewards
Difficult customers	none	Composed of 9 stewards
Aging customers	none	Composed of 9 stewards
Disabled customers	none	Composed of 9 stewards

• A grievance committee member, or other specified union representative(s), must be allowed time off during working hours for union business on notice to the immediate supervisor.

Seventeenth proposal - No

Counter offer TWU Local 100 members shall have a right of dual employment without the current requirement to get approval from the MTA. 

• Sick leave will be granted to the employee who is unfit for work due to an accident incurred while working for another employer instead of the current denial of granting sick leave.