(Source: WGBH, March 10, 2020)
BOSTON — A new campaign pushing back against cuts to the MBTA maintenance workforce launched Monday with a protest outside the Transportation Building ahead of a T board meeting. Through public records requests, the Safe Transit Now campaign identified a 17.5 percent reduction in a basket of employee groups — electricians, sheet metal workers, painters, pipefitters and carpenters, among them — from 407 workers in 2014 to 336 last year.
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