Assaults

The bottom line is TWU Local 100 members are assaulted while doing their work and our employer MTA could care less if the blue collar lives are shattered (majority of the employees who are assaulted are minorities). One wonders why the MTA board which is composed of caucasians seem to give lip service about the assaults. Maybe they do not endure the horrific pains that the blue collar families go through as result of the assault or maybe in their view ‘out of sight out of mind’.

We are pleased that the New York State Legislature have come to the realization that TWU Local 100 members need protection which they are not afforded. In addition to the MTA board dragging its feet to install partitions in the buses to safeguard the blue collar. 

It is a fact TWU Local 100 members are the facade of New York City - many New Yorkers have different issues whether economic hardship or mental issues. New Yorkers way of venting for their hardship, rising prices or fare rise is to assault TWU Local 100 members. We are not going to put up with it anymore, we appreciate and thank New York Legislative in realizing and saying TWU Local 100 members while doing their jobs should have means of defending themselves in the event of an assault due to the past practices of inadequacies from the MTA.

MTA board want us to believe that those stickers on the buses and trains are sufficient deterrents. The number of assaults are on the rise which proves them wrong. We recommend parading the assaulted TWU Local 100 members in every MTA board hearing till they take the issue of assaults on TWU Local 100 members seriously.