MTA's Job Cuts Could Include Operational Positions

The MTA will undergo a major reorganization this year to save money and streamline how it operates, and that means job cuts will be felt across the state transit agency.

The MTA hopes the consolidation will save up to $530 million a year.

The MTA's Chief Financial Officer Bob Foran told state lawmakers that it'll shave off 2,000 positions from headquarters, and another 700 would come from operations across agencies.

Foran hopes those jobs would be through attrition, not pink slips.

"So there won't be any layoffs in those positions, but we expect all of this will happen this year," Foran said.

The new chief transformation officer who started this year, earning a six-figure salary, gets to decide which jobs to cut.

"If they reduce maintenance titles and maintenance, then the system will go right back to the poor state it was in and all the money spent on the Subway Action Plan will have been wasted," Tony Utano, president of Transport Workers Union Local 100 wrote in a statement.

“No decisions have been made at this time as we are in the process of evaluating the position reductions with our agencies and departments," MTA wrote in a statement.