The MTA has a post-Sandy manpower shortage ― and is asking retired motormen to come back to work, the Daily News has learned.
NYC Transit sent letters last week to 120 former motormen in which the agency describes a “critical and urgent need” for their expertise.
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The division needs extra personnel to operate equipment trains for its $3.4 billion in repair projects, NYC Transit President Carmen Bianco told The News. It also needs more motormen for the R line because
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The R train’s hurricane-damaged Montague St. tunnel, connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, is closed for a 14-month overhaul.
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A lack of manpower hasn’t yet delayed repair projects, or impacted regularly scheduled subway service, but the work load is ramping up, Bianco said.
“We’re on the edge,” Bianco said. “It’s not a situation we want to be in.”
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The job pitch, however, could be a
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“I thought it was a joke at first,” Thomas Risi, a 31-year transit veteran, said Monday. “I just retired a few months ago.”
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Risi, 55, of the Bronx, said he’s enjoying his free time and his $47,000-a-year pension.
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Kevin Harrington, a vice president with Transport Workers Union Local 100, said it has become harder for motormen to take time off. The union, however, opposes re-hiring retirees “during this time of high unemployment,” Harrington said.
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Retirees have pensions while the unemployed are without incomes, Harrington said.
Harrington also faulted transit officials for allegedly reducing the number of motormen over several years, through attrition, in order to reduce payroll. Bianco said any dips were
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NYC Transit is training new motormen but it takes six months in the classroom and in the field to become certified, Bianco said. There are about 3,400 in that job title, he said.
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