‘Slave’ diss vs. TWU gals in gov corner

An African-American train conductor who wants to be head of the Transport Workers Union has publicly called four black women colleagues “slaves” for promoting Gov. Cuomo’s subway initiatives.

Tramell Thompson’s insult did not come in a private conversation in a break room or subway platform. Thompson posted the putdown in a popular Facebook group for hundreds of colleagues to see.

Thompson, an outspoken Cuomo critic who plans to challenge TWU Local 100 President Tony Utano in the union’s November elections, was expressing his frustration last week with four coworkers who were handing out pro-Cuomo leaflets outside a Brooklyn subway station.

“It’s even more sad to see our own members not educated enough on the damage Cuomo has done to our union through contracts (wages, health benefits) and tier 6 pensions,” Thompson, 35, wrote on his Facebook page.

“Seeing them do this work is no different than a slave master telling other slaves to go promote a lynch party where they might even get lynched. This obviously went over their head and it’s sad to see these sisters do this.”

Thompson, who leads a wing of the union membership called Progressive Action, accompanied the post with a picture of the four women in union T-shirts outside the Borough Hall subway station.

The women said Thompson crossed the line.

“I was really shocked,” said Natasha Letman, 44, a conductor,“that an African-American male would put us in a picture and attach the word ‘slave’ to it.

“The history behind it is ugly. He knows better. He should be ashamed of himself. That’s being a punk. He’s dealing with four women. As a man he know better. You don’t deal with us behind a computer. He put that on social media and that’s never going to go away.”

But Thompson stood behind his incendiary language , which he insists “wasn’t personal.”