AMNY: Fake Money Discipline Costing the MTA

DECEMBER 11 -- In a story out on newsstands today, AM New York reporter Rebecca Harshbarger reports on the MTA's policy on counterfeit bills. TWU Local 100 has been raising two issues with the MTA for months -- that Station Agents lack the proper equipment to identify counterfeits and that, because of this, are subject to unfair discipline. Hearings -- which revolve around the question of how to detect the frauds -- are costing the MTA more than the money lost through the fake bills, the article reveals. The MTA has new equipment to scan bills but instead tells Station Agents to rely on a special pen that can be defeated by counterfeiters. The union is calling on the MTA to install the new readers in every booth. Read the whole story here.