Samuelsen Nominated to MTA Board

Gov. Cuomo has nominated TWU Local 100 President John Samuelsen to serve on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board.

If approved by the State Senate, Samuelsen will become the first Local 100 president to ever sit on the board, which meets monthly to set policy for the largest transit system in the United Sates.

Cuomo nominated Samuelsen to fill a now-vacant non-voting seat that traditionally has gone to a representative of organized labor. TWU Local 100 members will now have a direct voice on issues of great concern to workers and riders.

A Trackworker by title, Samuelsen, 48, of Brooklyn, was elected to his third term as Local 100 president in December, 2015. TWU Local 100 has approximately 42,000 members. The vast majority are bus and subway workers employed by the MTA.  The Local 100 membership, however, also includes workers at private school bus, bike share and tour bus companies, as well as Liberty Lines Transit Inc. in Westchester County.

MTA board members are volunteers and do not receive pay for their service.