Samuelsen to MTA Board: Labor Will Make No Concessions

At today's MTA Board Meeting, TWU International President John Samuelsen told other Board members that organized labor would not make concessions to help the Authority balance their budget against huge shortfalls caused by COVID-19. He said that transit workers have paid in blood to keep the system running as they worked through the pandemic, and that layoffs would be "an absolute betrayal" of riders and workers.