As the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Transport Workers Union Local 100 held contract talks that went past the deal’s expiration May 15, a top union official warned that allegations made by MTA Board Finance Committee Chair Larry Schwartz about union overtime abuse being criminal in nature “created the type of atmosphere where a strike could happen organically.”
TWU International President John Samuelsen’s comments that day to this newspaper were in response to remarks made by Mr. Schwartz prior to a May 10 emergency MTA meeting. That session was convened in response to an Empire Policy Center report that there was a $418-million spike in MTA overtime costs for 2018, a 16-percent rise over 2017.
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