Members interests II

We want the contract with safeguards fixing the pressing matters for TWU Local 100 such as wages, health benefits, job security, 25/55 pension, retiree health benefits, dignity on job, childcare, maternity, vacation leave, and sick leave.

Just as we want those above safeguards we need to be vigilant pressing forward our strategy of limiting management abuses and control. While the contract may not have danger however nonetheless it is not without risk. We want the contract without those seventeen (17) proposals to be TWU Local 100 members would have no proper protection.

Fixing MTA financial mess due to mismanagement on our backs is not acceptable, we will not tolerate that - New Yorkers need to be assured that their premier mass transportation system is viable moving forward. Mismanagement must be dealt with far more and must be done in cutting the bureaucracy at the minimum to fifty (50%) percent. 

The duplication of bureaucracy of New York City Transit, Long Island Railroad, Metro-North Railroad, Bridges and Tunnels, MTA Bus and Capital Corporation, need to be trimmed down to one entity at one location instead of duplication, and waste of resources. Just imagine if Apple Inc was run as MTA they would be out of business in a heartbeat, just count how many presidents there are, vice presidents, general managers, assistant general managers all of those need new automobiles yearly who conduct themselves without degree of reserve or inhibition their abuses are not acceptable. We in TWU Local 100 should not be burdened with their mismanagement - we say no.

We are the key players in the MTA, we are the crown jewel of this agency - TWU Local 100 members should not be sacrificial lambs for fixing the problems of MTA. There were many studies and board resolutions that should have been implemented - whether MTA is recapitalized, the most pressing of all is to fix the problem of MTA that involves far more than our demands that needs to be done. MTA has to be more competitive that is for more jobs and growth - deficit rhetoric is useless and they should not be relied upon. MTA needs to be competitive to move itself out of the deficit pit that has been caused by mismanagement and dysfunctional, erratic and  poor management.

TWU Local 100 agenda is simple to safeguard its members interests, we always had a leading role - we are not going to sacrifice membership interest on issue after issue or lose our influence at the heart of the premier mass transportation that New Yorkers rely on. We are fully committed and influential in moving New Yorkers around their city however we are going to protect our members interests which we will continue to do since it is the right course - we are TWU Local 100.