Mayor de Blasio Feb. 20 launched a “comprehensive plan” to fill the record number of potholes that have sprouted up on roads over the harsh winter, but it won’t bring in the roughly 200 Assistant Highway Repairers who are laid off every winter as a cost-saving measure by the Department of Transportation.
District Council 37 Local 983 President Joe Puleo said that his members, seasonal employees who do not work from December to March as part of an apprenticeship program, should be out on the roads for DOT.
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