Rad Sallee’s Move It! column notes Metro’s layoffs, and also a new labor agreement:
The Metropolitan Transit Authority last week approved a three-year labor agreement with the Transit Workers Union, which represents bus operators, mechanics and cleaners. The agency also laid off 77 employees in jobs described as “non-mission critical.”
Over the three years, the raises would bring a senior driver making $17.77 an hour to $19.21, a journeyman mechanic to $21.51, and the lowest-paid cleaners to $13.36.
The employee “restructuring” involved slightly more than 2 percent of Metro’s work force and was limited to non-union salaried employees in “functions and activities whose value to the authority had diminished over time or become unnecessary,” a Metro statement said.
“No additional layoffs are planned,” said spokesman Ken Connaughton.
