Transit workers union head Richard Davis stepping down amid sexual misconduct claims

Richard Davis, president of Transport Workers Union Local 100 has agreed to measurement down from his occupation aft being suspended amid an autarkic probe into allegations of intersexual misconduct involving a subordinate successful the union, the Daily News has learned.

Multiple sources, granted anonymity to sermon national matters, told The News that Davis has signed a severance statement with Local 100, the city’s largest transit union, ending his employment connected Jan. 31. The News obtained documents showing Davis was suspended by the TWU International Tuesday pursuing the investigation, which began erstwhile a subordinate came to the planetary national with allegations Davis had pressured her into a intersexual relationship.

“Based connected the report, I person determined that you person conducted yourself successful an appalling mode that is detrimental to the champion interests of the Union,” TWU International President John Samuelsen wrote, informing Davis of his suspension.

“You are being charged with pressuring a pistillate employed by Local 100 into having intersexual relations with you,” Samuelsen wrote. “Sometime aft the intersexual narration ended, you took adverse employment enactment against this person, allegedly successful transportation with the cessation of the intersexual relationship.”

Davis was stripped of his entree to the Local 100 national hallway successful Brooklyn and immoderate different national spot Tuesday, and his union-issued telephone and computers were disabled, according to the memo. As antecedently reported by The News, national members were told that Davis was “out sick until further notice.” The section has immoderate 40,000 members.

The investigative report, obtained by The News and archetypal reported by the Chief-Leader, was commissioned by the planetary to an extracurricular instrumentality firm. Using a pseudonym for the transit worker, the report’s writer writes “I recovered Ms. Doe to beryllium highly credible regarding the allegations against Mr. Davis.” It does not bespeak whether Davis himself was interviewed.

Davis could not beryllium instantly reached for remark Friday.

According to the report, the unnamed pistillate transit idiosyncratic successful question said she began receiving unwanted intersexual commentary from Davis soon aft she was hired by the national successful 2022.

The commentary allegedly included Davis’ sexually explicit descriptions of however “[women] tin power a man…”

The study says Davis repeatedly requested one-on-one meetings with the pistillate earlier enactment hours, and that astatine 1 of those meetings, the pistillate noticed Davis had a representation of her connected his desk.

In January 2023, the study says, the pistillate was with Davis and different Local 100 members successful Houston to observe Martin Luther King Day erstwhile the national brag asked her to travel to his edifice room.

“Mr. Davis asked her to speech to him astir what had happened to her successful her past,” the study reads. “When she began crying, he kissed her and initiated sex.”

The pistillate told investigators that, afterward, she told Davis the enactment “was incorrect and would not hap again.” But she told investigators that they had enactment astatine slightest 2 much times successful her bureau astatine the Local 100 national hallway astatine Davis’ urging, and 2 much times connected enactment trips.

“Mrs. Doe indicated that she felt pressured and did not privation to person sex,” investigators wrote, utilizing a pseudonym for the woman. “She expressed that she felt if she did not person enactment with Mr. Davis and bash what helium wanted, her TWU Local 100 and bargaining portion jobs would beryllium successful jeopardy and she would beryllium terminated.”

The pistillate told investigators that she felt Davis could extremity her vocation “with a click.”

She besides told investigators that Davis physically threatened her, “indicating that if she said thing astir this [the relationship] oregon betrayed her helium would termination her, adjacent mentioning her children.”

“During the interviews, Ms. Doe repeatedly expressed concerns for her safety, that of her children, and her family,” investigators wrote.

The allegations laid retired successful the union’s interior probe the 2nd clip successful a small much than a twelvemonth Davis has been accused of threats related to workplace intersexual relationships.

In December of 2023, Davis was accused successful a suit of beating up different transit idiosyncratic with whom helium was romantically involved. The pistillate accused Davis of punching her successful the caput and placing her successful a headlock during an statement successful 2015, and assaulting her again successful 2016. The 2015 episode, the suit says, was triggered by the pistillate asking Davis astir different affairs she suspected helium was having.

Davis has denied each those allegations, and the suit is ongoing.

Under the presumption of his severance statement with Local 100, Davis volition person 100 weeks of wage and wellness security done the extremity of 2026.

Union sources said the planetary had been readying a disciplinary proceeding for Davis which could person removed him from office, but his resignation has stopped those proceedings.

A station connected the Local 100 website Friday confirms Davis’ resignation, but cites “health reasons” arsenic the origin of his departure.

John Chiarello, Secretary-Treasurer for the local, volition beryllium handing day-to-day operations for Local 100 successful Davis’ stead until a imperishable replacement tin beryllium appointed by the local’s enforcement board.

Originally Published: January 24, 2025 astatine 6:20 PM EST