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SSSA’s Former East Harlem Depot Workers Decry Loss of Job Flexibility

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 5/22/17

Dozens of members of the Subway Surface Supervisors Association say they lost key civil-service rights and a chance to earn tens of thousands of dollars in annual overtime following the 2015 closing of New York City Transit’s East Harlem Bus Depot.

As a result of an arbitration just before the shutdown, SSSA members came under the jurisdiction of NYC Transit’s non-civil-service subsidiary, the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Trans­portation Operating Authority (MaBSTOA), which operates the Mother Clara Hale Bus Depot at 721 Malcolm X Blvd. in East Harlem.

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