Op Ed: Samuelsen and Bronx BP Diaz On How the MTA Can Create Good Jobs

JULY 14 -- In an opinion piece in today's Daily News, TWU Local 100 President John Samuelsen joins with Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., to explain how the MTA should take the initiative in creating community-based local jobs for New Yorkers, financed by the new capital construction plan. They point out that since 1990, New York State has lost more than half its manufacturing jobs, and that the MTA Capital Plan is a way to get back on track. A plan put forward by Jobs to Move America, which Local 100 endorses, gives points to MTA bidders for training and hiring minority workers who live in our communities. Read the op-ed piece here.