ATU Local 1179 was chartered on January 17, 1938 and today represents the active and retired members of the former Green Bus Lines which was part of the inter-model public transit system of the City of New York. Green Bus Lines has since been taken over by the MTA BUS Company.
By all legal and proper means, it is the mission of ATU Local 1179 to follow the Preamble, Objectives, Laws, and Principles as set down by the ATU International Union. Our International has set forth many great objectives for its local unions to follow in our mission to secure our rights, advance our interests as workers, and build an organization where all the working members of our craft can participate. To build a forum that encourages the exchange of ideas on problems, which our welfare and prosperity depends. Establish order and harmony, and to encourage the principal and practice of negotiation and arbitration in the settlement of all differences between labor and management.
