JULY 23, 2026—Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City is holding their Annual Housing Fair this weekend at the TWU Counseling Center and all Local 100 members and retirees are invited.
The event will be held at 2475 Westchester Avenue in the Bronx on Saturday, July 25 from 10 am-3 pm.
JULY 15, 2026—In a decidedly unbalanced process, the City Council held a public hearing today for Intro. 943, a bill to ban the carriage horse industry that seemed to have been decided before it began.
Hundreds of TWU members came to rally before the hearing and support their carriage driver brothers and sisters who are in peril of losing their jobs and means of supporting their families if the bill passes.
JULY 13, 2026—TWU Local 100 joined AFSCME, LIUNA, AFT and other unions to file a brief in federal appellate court today in support of New York State in its case against the United States Department of Transportation.
Announced in April, $73.5 million in federal transportation funds has been withheld from New York by the federal government over what it claims are New York State’s compliance issues in issuing CDLs.
“These decisions were arbitrary and capricious,” the court papers state.
The withholding of the funds prevents New York State from properly maintaining and repairing roads, bridges, tunnels and other structures, putting not only our members who operate buses all day and night in danger, but their passengers—many of them children carried to and from school.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)’s reason for withholding the funding is based on the agency’s insistence that New York State should have followed rules they never announced and were not outlined or stated in regulations.
JULY 10, 2026—MTA Bus is mourning the recent loss of Jose Luis “Jalapeno” Ruiz, a former Vice Chairman of the Yonkers Depot.
Just 54, Ruiz passed on June 25 after a 2 ½ year battle with colon cancer. He retired in April 2024 after 28 years of service and only after his illness reached stage 4.
“He was well known to all as Jalapeño because even in the middle of a snowstorm he would come in his short sleeve uniform claiming he was hot, saying he was a jalapeño,” remembered current Yonkers Depot Vice Chair Marcos Soler.
JULY 7, 2026—The “violent predicate felon” who slashed one of our sister Conductors on the 6 train last June was convicted Monday on two counts of assault after only an hour of jury deliberations.
The Conductor, a 36-year-old mom, had been kind enough to reopen the doors for Isaiah Thompson when she saw him running up the stairs at the Morrison Ave.-Soundview station shortly before he attacked. He suddenly turned on her after she made the customary announcement to stand clear of the closing doors, prosecutors said at his trial.
JULY 5, 2026—As America celebrated its 250th birthday yesterday with fireworks and cookouts, a terrifying scene played out on a Bronx subway line. A Woodlawn-bound #4 train was making the final leg of its journey from Utica Ave. last night, approaching 161st Street—Yankee Stadium on the elevated structure at around 8:30pm.
At some point while the train was navigating the grades between 149-Grand Concourse and 161st, a large tree fell across the northbound tracks. Despite the Train Operator making every effort to stop the train in time, it made impact with the fallen tree, shooting a massive timber through the T/O’s vision glass, shattering it to pieces.
JULY 2, 2026—President John V. Chiarello provided a contract update ahead of the holiday weekend, and it could be summed up in four words: "We are at war".
He outlined some of the outrageous terms the MTA is demanding, including:
-Raises below the rate of inflation.
-Raising healthcare contributions for current members by 50%.
-Increasing total healthcare costs for new members to 10%, driving yet another wedge between current members and new hires—costing you thousands of dollars more each year.
-Increasing the co-pay for ER visits from $100 to $150.
-Playing doctor with our current prescription plans, making it harder for you and your family to get the medications you need.
-They want to strip pick rights from our members out on long-term sick and workers' compensation.
-They want to link maintainer bonus payments to vague productivity targets.
JULY 1, 2026—Last night, ABC7’s N.J. Burkett reported a blockbuster story exposing the MTA’s falsifying of bus maintenance records, jeopardizing Bus Operators, the riding public and anyone else on the road.
Armed with the records proving widespread fraud, TWU Local 100 has blown the lid off of senior MTA management's concealing of serious bus maintenance failures through their systematic clearing of repair orders that were never completed.
Following surprise 19A inspections at bus depots across the city, the union has uncovered buses with serious safety defects—including cracked windshields, inoperative lights, brake issues and other unresolved mechanical problems—that should never have been returned to service.
Local 100 President John V. Chiarello said the records paint a troubling picture of an agency more focused on making maintenance problems disappear on paper than actually fixing them in the garages.
JUNE 29, 2026—Local 100 members, staff and officers took to the streets Sunday for the 57th annual Pride Parade along with a float and a Big Bus decked out in rainbows for the occasion.
As our lively and colorful contingent headed down Fifth Avenue in the sunshine, DJ Cade kept the crowd moving while MaBSTOA 1 Recording Secretary Harriette Goodridge-Seymour shouted out Local 100 on the mic to the spectators gathered on the sidewalks.
The route turned west on 8th Street and passed the historic Stonewall Inn before heading back uptown to end in Chelsea.
JUNE 26, 2026—TWU Local 100 members and officers were on hand in Bronx Supreme Criminal Court Friday for a long-awaited event: the first day of the trial of the man who brutally slashed our sister Conductor last June.
As the prosecution gave opening statements, a clearer picture emerged of the cruel attack. The Conductor, a 36-year-old mom who had two years on the job at the time of the slashing, had been kind enough to reopen the doors for the man she saw running up the stairs at the Morrison Ave.-Soundview station that day. She never thought he would turn on her so violently a moment later.
“Shut the f--- up! Don’t tell me what to do!” yelled Isaiah Thompson at the Conductor once he was aboard the train and she made the customary announcement to stand clear of the closing doors, said prosecutors.
