Transit union chief Richard Davis accused of assaulting girlfriend in new lawsuit

Richard Davis, the head of the powerful Transport Workers Union Local 100, was accused by his ex-girlfriend of assault in a lawsuit filed last week.

Davis, who as head of TWU Local 100 represents some 40,000 subway and bus workers, was accused of two separate assaults on his ex-girlfriend Nicole Hecker, a bus operator herself, in 2015 and 2016, according to a lawsuit she filed against the union boss in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Thursday.