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The 2005 New York City transit strike, held from December 20 through 22, 2005, was the third strike ever by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 against New York City's Transit Authority and involved between 32,000 and 34,000 strikers. In December 2005, the TWU Local 100 called a strike in New York City.
The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, [2] or simply Transit, [3] and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City. Part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the busiest and largest transit system in ...
On February 1, 2023, as part of her Executive Budget proposal to the New York State Legislature, Governor Kathy Hochul proposed raising the MTA payroll tax, a move projected to increase revenue by $800 million, and also giving the MTA some of the money from casinos expected at present to be licensed soon for business in Manhattan.
MTA and Transport Workers Agree on Pay Increase for Transit Employees - Fort Greene-Clinton Hill, NY - The eight percent wage increase would be implemented over the next five years.
NEW YORK CITY — A Long Island Rail Road worker claimed 10 hours a day of overtime, earning $344,000 extra pay, while he actually went bowling. Another MTA worker raked in more than $200,000 in ...
The program, which was approved by the New York state Legislature in 2019, is supposed to raise $1 billion per year to fund public transportation for the city’s 4 million daily riders.
The MTA Will Pay $1M For Your 'Genius' Idea On How To Fix The NYC Subway (New Details!) The three winners of the "MTA Genius Transit Challenge" will be awarded $1 million each. Simone Wilson ...
The unions softened their demand for a wage raise. On April 9, a New York State Supreme Court justice fined the unions a total of $1 million for striking during the past eight days. The MTA reached separate agreements with the LIRR and the NYCTA unions on April 11. The next day, the workers went back to work.
Membership (US records; ×1000) [1] Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) is a United States labor union that was founded in 1934 by subway workers in New York City, then expanded to represent transit employees in other cities, primarily in the eastern U.S. This article discusses the parent union and its largest local, Local 100, which ...
The fare hike would raise money for investments to the MTA's capital programs such as the Second Avenue Subway and to more routine investments to improve subway stations city-wide and wiring ...