BOSTON (AP) — A contract negotiated with the region's largest transit union will save the cash-strapped Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority more than $80 million over the next four years, officials said Monday.
Under the deal, the 4,100-member Boston Carmen's Union Local 589 will forgo a 2.5 percent pay raise that was scheduled for June. But in exchange, most union members including bus and subway drivers and bus maintenance workers would be protected from having their jobs outsourced over the next four years.
There are a lot of hot battles to watch out for in 2017. President Trump versus Congress. President Trump versus the press. President Trump versus the Democrats. President Trump versus the Chinese, Mexico, Iran, and the Islamic State.
But one of the potentially most explosive of all will be Trump versus the bureaucracy.
