Union Mourns Joseph Calisi, 67, Aided in Organizing New Unit

Union members in the Career and Salary Unit are mourning the passing on August 30 of Computer Associate 3 Joseph Calisi, 67. At his retirement in 2020 he had 34 years of service with NYCT.

He was a dedicated union activist, working doggedly to organize workers in the Computer titles, producing pamphlets and publications for the effort. Thanks to his tenacity and the commitment of a core group of that formed around him, the unit voted to join TWU Local 100 in 2017.
Joe was a fixture at TWU Local 100 events where he took photographs before COVID stopped most meetings. A train buff, he reported on the transit industry as a photojournalist for rail publications and was also a voice-over artist on NYCTA’s Transit Transit newsmagazine for two decades. One of his reports, on steam locomotives in China, won an award for the newsmagazine. He also loved to play soccer in his free time.

He was fiercely proud of his Italian heritage, hailing from the town of Bari on the Adriatic coast. He died only two years after retiring from NYCT and leaves his loving wife, Roxanne, family in Bari, and countless friends.