The head of the Transport Workers Union is urging the state Senate to probe MTA leadership, accusing the brass of engaging in a “scheme” to cheat commuter rail workers out of deserved r…
The Transport Workers Union boss is urging the state Senate to investigate MTA’s leadership — accusing agency brass of “criminal fraud” in contract talks that are part of a “scheme” to cheat commuter rail workers out of their deserved raises.
covering 24 months in the most recent contract; railroad workers were offered a comparable raise over 26 months. TWU national president John Samuelsen is urging the state Senate to investigate the MTA’s leadership over “criminal fraud” in contract talks.The union honcho alleged the MTA leadership’s actions “seems to constitute a scheme to defraud workers at Metro-North of ‘contract pattern’ raises” — and called it “criminal fraud.”“These allegations are indeed very serious, both for the impacted workers and the taxpayers.
“As you are fully aware, there are and have been differences between the TWU Local 100 agreements at New York City Transit and the two MTA railroads over many years and agreements,” Miller said in an Aug. 29 letter to Samuelsen.She also told Samuelsen unions representing 100% of Long Island Railroad workers and 75% of Metro-North employees have agreed to labor settlements that Samuelsen objects to.
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