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Attrition continues to be an issue. In 2022, CTA filled 431 full-time employees on the bus operations side but lost more than 500 full-time workers for a net loss of 53 employees. But historical data of workforce levels show that CTA’s staffing was in flux well before the pandemic — with year-over-year reductions in the number of bus drivers.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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“Still in flux” is an interesting way to headline an article that tells us that the CTA buses-n-trains are filthy and dangerous, and that the CTA continues to be unable to retain and recruit employees because the buses-n-trains aren’t safe, and potential and current employees don’t like their own union’s bargaining agreements.
This in addition to the CTA’s financial mess and declining ridership.
God knows what Brandon-n-the-CTU will make out of all this by the time the Dem convention rolls around next year.
Two co – workers commute to our Evanston office on the Red/Purple lines, coming from Uptown. One takes the Purple Line Express from Wilson, the other takes the Red to Howard, then Purple to Davis. So, still on a pretty short commute they now have DAILY horror stories. These are younger and fit people, but they are constantly being hassled/endangered by the vagrants and criminals that now “live” on the L… this past Christmas I gifted them with both audio alarms and pepper spray for their commutes. One has used the audio alarm several times already… with Idiot Brandon in… Read more »