Proposed Contracts Revisions for Year 1954, Transport Workers Union of America, 1954

Inclusive date range: 1953-1954

Bulk date: 1954



This collection is comprised of briefs, statements of support, and exhibits submitted by the TWU and its supporters to the New York City Transit Fact Finding Board in support of their proposed contract provisions; the collection also contains the exhibits presented by the NYCTA in support of their position that they could not meet the TWU's demands.



In addition to the TWU's proposed contract revisions and supporting exhibits, this collection also contains two supplemental briefs from the Civil Service Forum of New York, a collection of union exhibits documenting various contracts between public and private transportation companies and municipal authorities; of note is the arbitration award and agreement between Boston's Metropolitan Transit Authority, precursor to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), and the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway, and Motor Coach Employees (AFSCME), Division 589, which is mentioned in the union exhibits as source material for the Fact Finding Board to examine. Another AFSCME Local, Local 380, submitted a paper titled, "An American Standard of Living for The Transit Workers of America's Largest City."



The NYCTA's submissions to the Fact Finding Board present in the collection are two documents, with exhibits, detailing the financial crises facing the transportation system that arose in conjunction with the consolidation of the three independent transit lines in New York and the cost of maintain such a large public transportation system, as well as detailing comparable rates of pay from other transportation systems.