New York City Transit Workers’ Information

The following links show our long involvement
in TWU/Local 100 Struggles

How we fought against the 2002 contract sellout:

New York: Union Tops Sabotage Transit Struggle – from Proletarian Revolution No. 66 (Winter 2003).

Fighting for revolutionary leadership:

Vote Eric Josephson (Independent Line) for Track Division Vice-Chair! Put New Directions to the Test – But Don’t Trust Them! – November 15, 2000

New Bureaucracy Threatens Workers’ Militancy: Overturn in New York Transit Union – from Proletarian Revolution No. 63 (Fall 2001).

Revolutionary vs. Reformist Methods in the Unions – from Proletarian Revolution No. 63 (Fall 2001).

Eric Josephson for Executive Board Member From Track! – October 1, 2003

RTW 2009 election campaign: Vote for the Candidates of Revolutionary Transit Worker! Toussaint & Co. Must Go, But TBOU Is No Alternative (May 19, 2009)

Response to Spartacist Slanders about RTW

LRP Supporter Wins Transit Union Post

The 1999 contract fight:

Showdown in New York Transit from Proletarian Revolution No. 60 (Winter 2000)

As part of the 1999 contract fight, we issued a series of special bulletins addressed to the TWU Local 100 membership:

• Vote Down Giuliani’s and “Judas” James’s Contract! – January 26, 2000.
• No Contract, No Work! No Time-Wasting! No Sellout! Vote to Strike! – distributed at TWU Local 100 mass meetings on December 14, 1999.
• Prepare to Strike! Bulletin #3 – December 7, 1999.
• Let’s Prepare to Strike! Bulletin #2 – November 16, 1999.
• Let’s Prepare to Strike! Bulletin #1 – October 1999.

Other articles about Local 100:

Real Jobs, Not Workfare – Stop WEP Slave Labor! – Written by a shop steward in the Track Division, May 6, 1999.

New York Transit: No New Direction – from Proletarian Revolution No. 57 (Summer/Fall 1998).

Revolutionary Campaign in New York Transit – from Proletarian Revolution No. 54 (Spring 1997)

Transit Workers Railroaded with Slave-Labor Contract – from Proletarian Revolution No. 53 (Winter 1997)

Local 100 Hacks, Old and New, Play Bosses’ Game – Summer 1996, from Proletarian Revolution No. 52