news MTA chairman Jay Walder blames prior administrations for blowing $560M on overtime

[Harry]

An MTA bigwig threw prior administrations under the bus Friday, saying their failure to crack down on sick-time abuse and unnecessary overtime drove labor costs sky high.

 

"The chairman is determined that this is not the way he wants to manage the operation," Hilary Ring, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's government affairs director, told a City Council committee.

 

"This may have been the way that prior administrations wanted to manage the operation - but this is clearly not the way he wants to manage the operation."

 

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/22/2010-05-22_he_blames_past_mta_bigs_for_ot.html#ixzz0oxEt19Gz

[cdi919]

i guess the overall plan is to have us work for free. while he sleeps real nice in tribeca tower on the tab of the poor and working class.

[DNJ]

An MTA bigwig threw prior administrations under the bus Friday, saying their failure to crack down on sick-time abuse and unnecessary overtime drove labor costs sky high.

 

"The chairman is determined that this is not the way he wants to manage the operation," Hilary Ring, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's government affairs director, told a City Council committee.

 

"This may have been the way that prior administrations wanted to manage the operation - but this is clearly not the way he wants to manage the operation."

 

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/22/2010-05-22_he_blames_past_mta_bigs_for_ot.html#ixzz0oxEt19Gz

 

Here we go again.:cool:

[Blatherskite]

A great way to cut the overtime hours is to not fire or layoff anyone. This guy is trying to have his train and ride it too.

[RTOMan]

A great way to cut the overtime hours is to not fire or layoff anyone. This guy is trying to have his train and ride it too.

 

Hes gonna wreck this place and leave it in shambles for the next person....

[Messino]

Overtime is part of the job plain and simple. Even if peple dont call in sick, there will still have to be overtime. All city jobs are like this. NYPD/FDNY is the same way. Overtime has been occuring since the MTA started and this bald headed lizard looking prick thinks pointing fingers and blaming everything else is going to help. We would be lucky if he walked into an open manhole and dropped dead.

[East New York]

A great way to cut the overtime hours is to not fire or layoff anyone. This guy is trying to have his train and ride it too.

 

If he knew half as much about transit as myself, the staff, and many of the users of this forum, he could have his train and ride it too! He's never been on this side of transit, so he can't relate to everything.

[Blatherskite]

If he knew half as much about transit as myself, the staff, and many of the users of this forum, he could have his train and ride it too! He's never been on this side of transit, so he can't relate to everything.

 

If he did, he would not have been hired. They never appoint someone that would be the right fit in any administrative position because many of them are about themselves, and not having knowledge. People with any knowledge would not want to be in the position of being the MTA's new Hitler.

[SubwayGuy]

Boy this guy just keeps getting worse and worse.

 

The hallmark of a terrible leader is they blame forces outside themselves for things. Clearly Jay Walder never saw Wedding Crashers, otherwise he'd know "no excuses play like a champion" but a champion he is not, more like a lame duck...

[INDman]

Boy this guy just keeps getting worse and worse.

 

The hallmark of a terrible leader is they blame forces outside themselves for things. Clearly Jay Walder never saw Wedding Crashers, otherwise he'd know "no excuses play like a champion" but a champion he is not, more like a lame duck...

 

Lame duck implies that this guy is a do nothing. He is a do something though, and his doing in the undoing of mass transit in the New York area, but mainly the TA. If he had his was, not only would there be no over time, but he would want to have a work force of volunteers. Hell, maybe he would try to get people pay to work.

[SubwayGuy]

If he had his was, not only would there be no over time, but he would want to have a work force of volunteers. Hell, maybe he would try to get people pay to work.

 

I don't doubt that one bit. And they wouldn't pay the TA, or the state. They'd pay HIM.

[Hawk Operator]

OT? There are some arcane contract rules regarding picked overtime, but that is because Management, manly scheduling dept, is a unable to provide headways without involvoing OT as part of the schedule. As for TWU members, there is some sick abuse, but not 580 million worth. Unless they counting all the MTA Police OT for doing nada, the TBTA for nada, or how about the MTA Bus Transportation Supervisors, non union in the begining, now part of 106, that had some making over 140k per year, with a majority making over 100k. These folks are just dispatchers at MTA Bus, standing on the corner booking a bus with a base salary of 58, 000 and more then doubling the base salary. Opps, management again making their $$$$$ paying the putz in jeep to sleep.

 

Lastly, because the MTA believes that nobody rides on a bus's last trip, the MTA usually shortens the schedule by a good amount of time, making the bus late to return to depot hoping the bus operator doesn't put the 10 minutes late everyday, adding an additional $1700 + pay per bus operator each year totaling approximately 13,000,000.00 more in payroll costs. Fix the schedule to real time and lower the costs in half. But hey remember the MTA does it their way!

[SubwayGuy]

OT? There are some arcane contract rules regarding picked overtime, but that is because Management, manly scheduling dept, is a unable to provide headways without involvoing OT as part of the schedule. As for TWU members, there is some sick abuse, but not 580 million worth. Unless they counting all the MTA Police OT for doing nada, the TBTA for nada, or how about the MTA Bus Transportation Supervisors, non union in the begining, now part of 106, that had some making over 140k per year, with a majority making over 100k. These folks are just dispatchers at MTA Bus, standing on the corner booking a bus with a base salary of 58, 000 and more then doubling the base salary. Opps, management again making their $$$$$ paying the putz in jeep to sleep.

 

Lastly, because the MTA believes that nobody rides on a bus's last trip, the MTA usually shortens the schedule by a good amount of time, making the bus late to return to depot hoping the bus operator doesn't put the 10 minutes late everyday, adding an additional $1700 + pay per bus operator each year totaling approximately 13,000,000.00 more in payroll costs. Fix the schedule to real time and lower the costs in half. But hey remember the MTA does it their way!

 

Just for a day, I'd love to see workers publish ALL of management's abuses in large private corporations. Guarantee those abuses are FAR worse than what Walder is claiming the unions get. Guarantee some of Walder and the executives' perks are far worse than what he's claiming the unions get. Since he wants to air out everyone's dirty laundry, the union should air out his dirty laundry. Make it known that the taxpayers and riders are paying more than the salary of the majority of Americans alone just in his housing allowance. Air out every little perk he gets as well as other "bigwigs".

[Blatherskite]

Just for a day, I'd love to see workers publish ALL of management's abuses in large private corporations. Guarantee those abuses are FAR worse than what Walder is claiming the unions get. Guarantee some of Walder and the executives' perks are far worse than what he's claiming the unions get. Since he wants to air out everyone's dirty laundry, the union should air out his dirty laundry. Make it known that the taxpayers and riders are paying more than the salary of the majority of Americans alone just in his housing allowance. Air out every little perk he gets as well as other "bigwigs".

 

That would be great, but one problem. The media and publishing houses ARE the private corporations. Remember, this country sold it's soul a long time ago. There is no neutral governmet for the people of the people and by the people. There is no neutral media. There is no neutral law enforcement. It's upper class in control of us peasants. The media has people believing that anyone can make it in this country henceforth the real estate debacle. The American dream is just that, a dream, because if you think it's possible, you are dreaming. America has died, and so has the soul of the people. No one is fighting against the powers destroying us. They are too busy letting the media fool them that the brown guy or the white guy is different from you, so we fight each other. Divide and conquer. We divided. They conquered.

[Igor Gaysinsky]

And how r we gonna find out more then what he clams to be

[Igor Gaysinsky]

and how can we expose them in the acts that would be good catch them red handed in the act