D'Amato, Connolly Appointed to New Posts by the Executive Board

NOVEMBER 30 -- Bus Maintainers Danny D'Amato and Sean Connolly have been appointed to new posts by the Executive Board. D'Amato, a 29 year veteran at MTA Bus, is now Division Chair. Sean Connolly, Chairman of Maintenance at College Point, is now a member of the Executive Board. Both men were sworn in at today's Executive Board meeting by President Tony Utano.

Danny D'Amato started out as a Bus Maintainer at Eastchester Depot in 1991, and first won union office in 2007 as a Section Vice Chair for Transportation and Maintenance at MTA Bus. Unique to that Division, both Operators and Maintainers are both represented by the same officers. Brother D'Amato served four terms as Section Vice Chair at Eastchester and then two terms as Division Vice Chair of MTA Bus.

Brother Connolly, wearing a shirt with a Cummins Diesel logo, is at right next to Recording Secretary LaTonya Crisp. Next to him is Brother D'Amato, and then Pres Utano. At President Utano's right are Private Lines VP Pete Rosconi, Administrative VP Lynwood Whichard, LaGuardia Depot Vice Chair Mike Capocci, and Secretary-Treasurer Earl Phillips.