Healey funding plan not enough to close T's budget gap
Gov. Maura Healey’s push to increase state support for the MBTA could help the agency navigate the year ahead, but it would not be enough to solve a projected...
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Gov. Maura Healey’s push to increase state support for the MBTA could help the agency navigate the year ahead, but it would not be enough to solve a projected...
A hiring blitz during Gov. Healey’s first year in office boosted the MBTA’s headcount by more than 10 percent and “set a new bar for the T,” officials said on Jan. 11. Fueled in large part by labor agreements that boosted wages and rolled out retention bonuses, the MBTA hired 1,480 new employees in 2023 and promoted 511 others to boost its workforce, long viewed as key to
Fueled in large part by labor agreements that boosted wages and rolled out retention bonuses, the MBTA hired 1,480 new employees in 2023 and promoted 511 others to boost its workforce, long viewed as key to addressing some of the agency's deep-rooted problems.
A hiring blitz during Gov. Maura Healey’s first year in office boosted the MBTA’s headcount by more than 10 percent and “set a new bar<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/mbta-workforce-grew-by-730-over-last-year/">Read More</a>
Next year’s budget comes in at about 7%, or $174 million higher than this fiscal year and the spending plan calls for growing the T’s workforce from 6,679 employees to 7,743, an addition of 964 employees not included in fiscal 2023’s budget.