New York’s largest transit employees union introduced new management Friday, as the manager board of Transport Employees Union Native 100 moved to provide appearing native president John Chiarello the everlasting place.
“We will take no crap from management, and we will do what needs to be done to get what our members expect and deserve,” Chiarello advised the native’s govt board Friday, in line with a TWU press launch. “If that includes knocking down walls and shaking some foundations, we will do it,” he stated.
An ally of TWU worldwide president John Samuelsen, Chiarello was first put in control of the native final month after Samuelsen eliminated then-president Richard Davis amid a number of allegations of sexual misconduct.
Davis, a former bus driver and the incumbent native president, had simply been re-elected to the management put up in December.
TWU Native official John Chiarello speaks at a press convention on the TWU Native 100 workplace in downtown Brooklyn in June 2024. At far left is Richard Davis, the union’s former president. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Day by day Information)
Chiarello, 58, started his transit profession as a subway automotive inspector in 2001, and was elected to the union’s govt board shortly after in 2002. The Brooklyn native then turned a alerts maintainer, and commenced representing alerts employees in 2009 as a division chair for the native. He was the vp of the union’s Upkeep of Approach division representing observe employees from 2017 till 2024, when he was elected secretary-treasurer for the Native.
In an announcement Friday, Chiarello expressed concern that MTA chairman Janno Lieber would possibly attempt to offset the lack of funding from congestion pricing — ought to President Trump achieve success in his efforts to kill the toll — by demanding concessions from the unionized workforce.
“Lieber sweet talks the media and appears to be rational,” Chiarello stated in an announcement. “But he’s not. He is the most significant enemy that we in the Local and at the International have had in a long time.”
Lieber has publicly expressed confidence within the MTA’s authorized efforts to guard the toll — which is liable for bringing in income to fund the capital facet of the transit company’s finances. Nearly all of Native 100’s members are paid by way of the company’s working finances.
Underneath union bylaws, Chiarello will serve out the rest of Davis’ time period, which runs by way of 2027. Negotiations for Native 100’s subsequent contract are anticipated to start later this yr.
