Log in Subscribe

Transit Head Motto: Customer Always Right but Staff Isn’t Always Wrong

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 4/25/18

A common complaint heard from Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers is that all too often they find themselves in an adversarial relationship with front-line managers who they say punish those who raise workplace-safety issues.

Back in 2016, this dysfunction prompted litigation when a veteran New York City Transit Track Worker, Janathan Harte, won an administrative-law decision in which the judge ruled he had been retaliated against for bringing unsafe conditions to the attention of inspectors from the New York Public Employees Safety and Health (PESH) Bureau during a spot inspection of NYC Transit’s Linden shop.

This item is available in full to subscribers.

Please log in to continue

Log in