CTA Bus Driver OT Soars Since Layoffs
(Chicago Sun Times) — The CTA paid more than $1.9 million in overtime to bus drivers in the four months following the February service cuts — 62 percent more than it paid for an average four-month period in 2009, according to CTA records.
“That’s how they’re compensating for the people they laid off,” said Carlos J. Acevedo, assistant business agent for Amalgamated Transit Union Local 241, which represents bus drivers.
