MTA Finances
MTA Goes Ahead With 250 Job Cuts
The saga of am I laid off or not continued on Tuesday with an unfortunate end for 250 employees. As you know the MTA had plans to lay off hundreds of workers starting a few days ago. However this past Thursday, a judge issued a temporary restraining order barring the MTA from closing the booths. […]
MTA Chairman Opines On Union Work Rules
The battle between the MTA & unions (especially the TWU Local 100) is an editorial gift that keeps giving. The latest round continues to be about the pending layoffs the MTA says is necessary to help clean up an ever growing budget deficit. The battle lines are clear in this one as the MTA is […]
MTA Station Agent Update
As you know by now, the MTA had planned to layoff hundreds of station token booth clerks due to their huge budget deficit. The first round of cuts were to have started this past Wednesday, but a judge issued a temporary restraining order against the MTA closing the booths. Yesterday evening, the MTA issued a […]
Judge Halts MTA Closing Token Booths
Earlier this morning, I wrote about how the MTA was to announce more job cuts today, on top of the 475 token booth clerk jobs that were to be eliminated starting today. However those 475 jobs are safe for now as Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Alice Schlesinger signed a short term restraining order preventing the […]
MTA To Announce More Job Cuts Today
Over the past couple of weeks, I have blogged on numerous occasions about the pending job cuts facing many transit workers. My last entry on the topic was two days ago when I wrote about how Jhesky Vega lost his job as he & his fiancee were preparing for their October wedding in Puerto Rico. […]
