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The MBTA’s struggles with hiring and retaining workers have grabbed headlines for months, but supporters of a new labor deal featuring pay and benefit upgrades say it represents cause for hope.
The four-year agreement between the MBTA and Boston Carmen’s ATU Local 589 includes overall wage increases, signing bonuses and longevity bonuses.
Still less than four months into the job, MBTA General Manager Phil Eng talked to Radio Boston about the early challenges and surprises that have come along with turning around the much-maligned transit system. Here's what we learned.
A new four-year contract for the MBTA’s largest union includes an 18 percent wage increase over the life of the tentative agreement, the most significant pay increase for the agency’s frontline workers since the 1990s, Governor Maura Healey said Wednesday.
The labor agreement will cover more than 6,000 MBTA employees for the next four years.