All MTA staff will now be included in a state legislation that imposes stiffer penalties on those that assault transit staff, Gov. Kathy Hochul stated Monday.
The legislation, which makes attacking an MTA worker second-degree assault, was beforehand restricted to coach conductors and operators. It is going to now embody 11,000 complete staff together with “buyer assistants, ticket or income collectors, upkeep staff, repairers, cleaners, and their supervisors,” the governor stated.
“Final 12 months, there have been 118 assaults — bodily assaults — on our transit staff, up 23 % from the 12 months earlier than,” Hochul stated earlier than signing the invoice at an MTA bus depot in Queens on Monday.
“They’ve omitted many frontline transit staff, and tonight we’re righting that unsuitable.”
The MTA workforce has confronted a median of two assaults and dozens of incidents of harassments per week this 12 months, in line with publicly obtainable MTA stats.
“As unprovoked, violent assaults in opposition to MTA staff proceed to rise, it's crucial that our MTA Supervisors obtain the identical authorized protections as each different MTA worker,” Subway Floor Supervisors Affiliation President Michael Carrube stated in an announcement.
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