The Long Island Rail Road’s costly work rules remain in force — despite repeated calls for reform — due to the tremendous clout held by its militant unions, and fears of a strike angeri…
Simply bringing the LIRR’s labor costs and efficiencies in line with Metro-North would save the MTA more than $200 million annually — a spending cut the agency desperately needs as it seeks a bailout from Albany to help recover from coronavirus-induced ridership declines.
“The failure to even consider merging or equalizing some aspects of Metro North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road operations in the ill-conceived 2019 ‘transformation plan’ tells you all you need to know about the politics around the commuter railroads,” said Reinvent Albany’s Rachael Fauss, the top MTA expert at the public interest group. “Parochial interests have too often won out over the public interest.
“The Long Island Rail Road unions were failures at delivering votes for Hochul,” said a longtime MTA hand about the election result. “Hochul doesn’t owe them anything.”
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