MTA Workers are lazy punks. And it kills me that people like that can be protected by a union at all. Typically, when there's a union in place, people slack off and rely on the union to protect them.

Losers.

I'm so proud (more and more proud every day) of a city full of uneducated lazy jackasses.

Congratulations. While you're "supporting" your kids, you're teaching them what lazy fat bastards look like.

idiots.

God bless this guy. That was some brave shit. That shit sure won't help the current salary negotiations.

Interesting. Here's someone's comment on the ABC Story...

bxtrackman 12/8/09 7:57 PM EST

He should have died......... he is a snitch

"it may be to bloomberg because he's never taken the train."

Wrong.

hahahahahahahaha... thank you for that, i really needed it. chalk this one up to another boob that fell for bloomberg's political show. riding the train for one stop through non-"maintenance" areas doesn't count. come back when good ol' mikey has to ride the train for 30 minutes, through work delays and has to take a shuttle bus due to "scheduled maintenance."

Why would anyone return to work after his coworkers tried to kill him?

This is why this city, and most of the country, is doomed.

You talk like this is something new. Lazy people have been pulling this kind of garbage since time immemorial. It's human nature. But we've survived them until now, so I think we'll be okay for the indefinite future, although obviously not doing as well as we could be.

Oh no, this guy is on a hit list now. He should just sue the MTA and retire under an alias.

c'mon this isn't news to the transit riding public. it may be to bloomberg because he's never taken the train.

but every time we see 20 workers in the tunnels, 19 are taking lunch and one is doing some kinda work. i can't recall the last time i saw more than one or two in a large group actually doing work. it's been like this forever, and their union protects them. the good thing about this is a documented embarrassment for the city to attempt to fix now.

If it's true that the union is to blame, then we're in trouble cause they just voted in some guy reputed to be more "pro-union" and less "management-friendly" than Toussaint's guy.

He's right, "the people to blame are management."

It's not the union's job to enforce work rules, it's managements. And by not having many (or any) supervisors around, by not disciplining workers who are slacking off, they are not doing their job.

Of course, if management ever did decide to discipline an employee (and they should, with most of them), it would be the union's job to defend them. The grievance procedure is somewhat like the justice system, if the evidence is there the person will get convicted; but the accused has the right that the charges must be proved and s/he has to have an opportunity to respond.

The problem here seems to be that management doesn't want to discipline employees because they (gasp!) are just as lazy.

By, "He's right," I mean Juan de los Santos, the whistleblower.

point taken, but that is exactly why i have a problem with this union, because it is almost impossible to punish a union employee unless gross negligence was committed that results in death.

these guys are abusing the bureaucratic loopholes that are in place to earn more money and the modern day union will do everything in their power to protect that. they definitely aren't engaging in activities that would result in death, they are just bleeding the taxpayer dry, similar to the rail workers in long island city and many other city employees that are protected by unions, i.e. sanitation, bridges and tunnels police, etc.

I'm sure it's not in the contract that every MTA worker has the right to jack off for six hours a shift. But let me ask you something. Have you ever seen a supervisor? It's management's job to direct work and enforce rules, and to this outsider it doesn't look like they're doing a good job of it.

this is all trumped up bullshit, everyone knows that MTA workers can't read.

how do they justify fare hikes in face of wasteful spending on employees like this?