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Re: Time for labor to sacrifice / MTA unions must do fair share — Lhota {Op-Ed} |
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Posted by Mr RT on Thu Jun 21 08:02:04 2012, in response to Re: Time for labor to sacrifice / MTA unions must do fair share — Lhota {Op-Ed}, posted by J trainloco on Wed Jun 20 18:45:17 2012. "... I'm not sure how prevailing wage law applies to this ..."All I'm saying is that salaries (of blue collar folks) in the NY metro area are higher then many cities out of town, so they are not out of line with what other blue collar workers get A-N-D management said yes when the unions asked for a raise, so how is it their fault ? "... Actually, labor costs within the operating budget are the MTA's largest annual expense ..." The union folks do make a good salary, but the MTA has added a lot of supervision & back office types. If they paid & trained (and supported) their supervisors better they could reduce a lot of them. In addition there are far too many back office folks ... because the MTA isn't run like a business, so they just add staff when a project comes up. "... Capital expenditure ... totally separate budgets (from operating budgets) ..." Correct, but those moneys not gotten from the feds come from the state, i.e. tax payers ! Look at the cost of the East Side Access ... initially projected at $3B, it is now up to $8.24. This doesn't seem reasonable, but I'm not going to get into a big discussion about it in this thread. "... Rehab projects ... are critical to keeping what we have operating ..." Correct again, but do we have to spend so much on them ? |
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