(Chicago Sun Times) — The CTA started making nonunion workers take furlough days and unpaid holidays back in 2009, to cut costs as tax revenues plunged.
But while salaries have fallen, one category that’s up on the CTA payroll is “vacation buyback.”
Under the CTA’s buyback policy, a worker can choose not to take up to three weeks of vacation and get money for the time instead.
This policy was eliminated in 2002 for nonunion workers by former CTA President Frank Kruesi, and brought back by the most recent former president, Ron Huberman, now head of Chicago Public Schools.
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