To the Editor: Transport Workers Union President Tony Utano was right when he wrote (in the summer issue of Transport Workers Bulletin) that any new contract must keep workers ahead of inflation. The expired contract was the first one in decades that did not put them behind.
Utano also rightly dismisses MTA claims of future deficits and rightly criticizes the corporate-owned media for blindly accepting these claims as fact. Going at least back to the 1990s, management would claim to have a deficit which would magically disappear after the contract was settled.
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