A Transport Workers Union big has gotten the boot for trying to improperly punish an alleged philandering bus-driver rep, the TWU said.

John Paul “JP” Patafio, TWU Local 100’s vice president for its Brooklyn bus division, inserted himself into the suspected messy love triangle at a Queens depot by attempting to demote the rep, who was allegedly cheating on his bus-driver wife with another MTA bus driver at the same depot, the union’s disciplinary trial committee said.

Patafio did “not have the authority to remove an elected official from his position, absent written charges and a trial,” the panel said. 3

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Yet he demanded that the male bus-driver rep stop allegedly cheating on his wife with the other driver — and attempted to unilaterally suspend him from his union post for six

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