The Transport Workers Union will file legal papers today to force the MTA to award planned raises to transit workers, according to the New York Daily News.
The TWU is asking the State Supreme Court to order the MTA to abide by an arbitration panel’s decision to give three percent raises next January.
The agency has paid out 4 percent raises each of the last two years and says it cannot afford another increase.
Local 100 argues the MTA’s attempts to deny the raises are unfair and illegal.
(Source: NY1)
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Another Union, liberal, scam.
They start out with higher pay then for many other physical labor jobs, plue free dental plus free medical plus paid vacations up to something oike 4 paid weeks per year (besides every major and minor legal holiday, on the books) and it’s never enough.
My wages must go down, so theirs which are already much higher then mine, can continue to go up.
This is beyond disgusting.
The union leaders dont care about the common folk. Oh they claim they do but its bull. They are for themselves. The problem is when the union doesnt get their $$$ or when they do and the MTA has to raise fares again, its the union’s lay people that suffer.
The legislature could, if it was serious about fiscal responsibility, repeal the statute that authorized collective bargaining by state employees. It probably wouldn’t even requiring a change to the state constitution. The right to collective bargaining for state employees is up to the states, and is not protected by federal law.