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Spin Zone / Unions and "overtime"
« on: January 05, 2016, 06:44:15 AM »
In the Boston-area news today is a story about the sweet sweet SWEET deal the union has with the MBTA.
A maintenance worker, whose salary is about $85,000, made $315,000 last year by working 2648 hours of overtime, (not 2000 straight hours and 648 OT, but 2648 hours of OT!)
It goes like this, a union worker calls in sick one day and later in the week works "overtime" at the OT rate even though he doesn't even work 40 hours for the week. In other words, the union worker doesn't have to work 40 hours in the week before he can get OT pay.
The MBTA is a part of the Taxachusetts state government and thus funded by taxpayers.
In the meantime, 1" of snow last week caused a few of the MBTA buses to get stuck - real prepared for winter .... but make sure the union is pampered.
A maintenance worker, whose salary is about $85,000, made $315,000 last year by working 2648 hours of overtime, (not 2000 straight hours and 648 OT, but 2648 hours of OT!)
It goes like this, a union worker calls in sick one day and later in the week works "overtime" at the OT rate even though he doesn't even work 40 hours for the week. In other words, the union worker doesn't have to work 40 hours in the week before he can get OT pay.
The MBTA is a part of the Taxachusetts state government and thus funded by taxpayers.
In the meantime, 1" of snow last week caused a few of the MBTA buses to get stuck - real prepared for winter .... but make sure the union is pampered.