Re:How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways
by mgbmtl on Monday November 20, 2017 @08:19AM
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Why?
It always surprised me how few employees there are in busy NY stations. Those that I see always seem busy and exhausted.
In Montreal, there were some newspaper articles about how a few bus/metro drivers make $100k/year by doing a lot of overtime, blaming unions. However, this was an intentional policy from management who consider it more cost-effective to encourage staff to do more overtime, rather than hire more people (who may not have a full workload).
It always surprised me how few employees there are in busy NY stations. Those that I see always seem busy and exhausted.
In Montreal, there were some newspaper articles about how a few bus/metro drivers make $100k/year by doing a lot of overtime, blaming unions. However, this was an intentional policy from management who consider it more cost-effective to encourage staff to do more overtime, rather than hire more people (who may not have a full workload).