Welcome to Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1056 Website

 ATU Local 1056 was chartered on January 23, 1935
We represent over 1700 Bus Operators, Mechanics, Cleaners and members in Queens, NY. We have transportation and maintenance Depots in Flushing, Jamaica and Queens Village. Our Membership comes from all walks of life; we are a diverse work force. We provide Express Bus service to Manhattan and local service in the Queens neighborhoods.

 

                         

Mayor Michael Bloomberg (l.) speaks with Shannon Poland, (c.) the personal assistant to the president of the Transit Workers Union, and I. Daneek Miller, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Division 1056, before he announced a new program to bring group-ride livery van service to outer-borough residents. Photo by Christina Santucci

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Bulletin of the rerouting in the Flushing Area     

                           

Brothers and sisters of Local 1056 please protect your job, MTA is cracking down
 on the  running of red lights and the usage of cell phones while driving. We are seeing
 an increase in violations concerning these matters.

 

Download your ATU Stop Cut Card !!

This card provides phone numbers to all State Senators and Assembly Members.

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 Keep America Moving Coalition

 

 

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MTA's top earners keep their jobs while agency cuts mid- to low-level workers!!

Only a handful of six-figure executives at MTA headquarters were shown the door in a recent payroll purge that put dozens of mid- and low-level employees out of work


 

 

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