The MTA has a HUGE reservoir of obsolete workers that could be driving subways: conductors. If Albany had any interest in good service, they could change the Taylor Act and allow the MTA to reassign conductors to drive trains
https://twitter.com/ClaytonGuse/status/1407717294038470662
Cuomo's had three opportunities to do this, every time the TWU contracts expire (twulocal100.org/contracts-taoa…). Two lines (L and 7) now have automatic train operation – the "operators" on those lines are barely doing anything, there's no reason to have conductors too
It’s the Taylor Law, Triborough Amendment specifically, which bars the MTA from changing contract terms (including keeping the obsolete position of subway conductor) even upon expiration w/o union agreement. The union’s “power to…enforce” comes from Triborough Amendment
https://twitter.com/twusamuelsen/status/1407725458612011008
The TWU believes they’d win a strike over cutting conductors…I don’t think they would. European transit unions strike all the time, and it doesn’t work to maintain obsolete positions and inefficient work practices as well as New York’s no-strikes-no-contract-changes system
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