The MTA Board – labeled by Local 100 President John Samuelsen as “a bunch of rich guys who have hijacked our transit system” – rubber-stamped Chairman Jay Walder’s plan to drastically increase fares, while at the same time following through on a previous assault on subway safety and security by closing 89 stations booths and laying off an additional 200 Station Agents.
Local 100 leaders, members, and transit riders and advocates packed the MTA Board room and an “overflow” room two floors below to register opposition to the MTA’s latest mugging of the transit system. Local 100 members also demonstrated on the street below the meeting and could be heard clearly in the meeting room chanting, “Fire the MTA,” Lay Off Walder,” and “Walder Must Go.”
Jay Walder also heard from the man who knows him better than anyone in New York – RMT head Bob Crow, who stood up to Walder when he worked for Transport for London. Click on the video tab to hear what Crow had to say.
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