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Loophole Keeps MTA Layoffs On Track

050910pinkslip.jpg Because of some tricky wording in the restraining order, the MTA is will still lay off 250 station agents next week. The restraining order against the MTA orders them to keep 42 station booths open, but has no language requiring them to keep all 475 potentially unemployed station agents from getting the ax. The MTA announced yesterday that 250 of the station agents "are not required to keep those subway booths open, and those layoffs are now scheduled for next week." The layoffs would save the MTA $21 million, but could mean more crime in unsupervised stations.

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  • Manitoba

    The layoffs would save the MTA $21 million, but could mean more crime in unsupervised stations.

    Dubious at best. Station booth operators are so unaware of their surroundings and so extraordinarily unhelpful (at least in every instance I've asked for help), I can imagine that hardly anybody will even notice they're gone.

    I say fire them all and just replace them with machines.

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