MTA Presents Departmental Demands

The MTA has presented its Departmental demands in meetings with the TWU Local 100 negotiating committees in each department. 
The MTA’s still has not presented main table proposals. We can expect them shortly after the New Year.
As to management’s Departmental demands, there are definitely some unifying themes. 
  • The MTA wants to reduce contractual  payments for reporting time, wash-up time, travel time. 
  • They want to limit our members’ control over their work schedules.  They are attempting to do this through limiting the number of picks, eliminating shape-up, eliminating weekly bids, extending or creating lock-ins, and reducing the penalties they would have to pay for changing someone’s tour or hours on short notice.
  • There are MTA demands to broad-band our work, such as having Cleaners do some light maintenance work.
Overall, the MTA demands seek to reduce our income and negatively impact our flexibility to select jobs and schedules that reflect the needs of our families.
The union is actively fighting  against these demands, and we fully expect to beat them back. 
As the negotiations move forward further updates will be sent.