{"id":5225,"date":"2009-08-12T07:20:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2009-08-12T07:58:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:58:07","slug":"how_will_we_pay_for_twu_raises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/08\/how_will_we_pay_for_twu_raises.html","title":{"rendered":"How Will We Pay For TWU Raises?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, the ones precipitated by the DC37 contract<\/a>? Through fare hikes<\/a>, of course:<\/p>\n

The acting head of the MTA said on Tuesday she can’t rule out a fare hike to pay for raises granted to bus and subway workers, which hiked their pay 11.3% over three years.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Irony alert: Bloomberg has the gall to grandstand about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then there’s this tidbit, from the Post<\/a>: “The MTA will have to raid $360 million from its federal stimulus dollars, the budget that funds mega-projects like the Second Avenue Subway, and from its reserves to fund fat raises for rank-and-file transit workers, angry officials said yesterday.”<\/p>\n

Or even this, from the Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

During contract talks, the agency dropped its demand for one-person train operation, instead of two, thinking that Transport Workers Union Local 100 would make health care concessions in return.<\/p>\n

But an arbitration panel has found there had been “no evidence” of a quid pro quo — handing a victory to the workers, who had been seeking to limit their health care contributions.<\/p>\n

Establishing one-person train operation has been a major goal of New York City Transit for more than a decade. Using one-person crews would save millions in labor costs, and the agency, which wanted to start the program on the No. 7 and L lines, has already invested in new compatible subway cars.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know, the ones precipitated by the DC37 contract? Through fare hikes, of course: The acting head of the MTA said on Tuesday she can’t rule out a fare hike to pay for raises granted to bus and subway workers, which hiked their pay 11.3% over three years. Irony alert: Bloomberg has the gall to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,68,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues","category-follow_the_money","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5227,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions\/5227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}