Cash-poor MTA may put recipients of unemployment benefits to work again cleaning subways

Cash-poor MTA may put recipients of unemployment benefits to work again cleaning subways


The cash-strapped MTA may soon put welfare recipients to work scrubbing and cleaning the subways.The Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants to revive its participation in the city's Work Experience Program
- which makes the unemployed toil for their benefit checks.

"This is a program that has a proven track record of doing three things:
providing low-cost cleaning help for the subway; providing job training
to people who need it, and leading directly to full-time employment for
many of the people who participate in the program," MTA spokesman Jeremy Soffin said.

The MTA eliminated 173 cleaner positions last year in a series of budget cuts that slashed a total of about 3,500 jobs.Subway riders told about the plan Monday largely gave it a thumbs up.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/03/29/2011-03-29_cashpoor_mta_may_put_recipients_of_unemployment_benefits_to_work_again_cleaning_.html

While I say hooray for some unemployed, this is union busting in it's finest.

knarf wrote:While I say hooray for some unemployed, this is union busting in it's finest.

Absolutely knarf, they "eliminated 173 cleaner positions last year in a series of budget cuts that slashed a total of about 3,500 jobs." Now they want to make the unemployed do the work at slave wages.