More For Less - Again

The CTA is sinking!!! They need money Money MONEY!!!

Oh wait, it does that every year:

• CTA service would run less frequently and the basic fare would be raised to as much as $3 next year under a dire 2010 budget proposal unveiled today.

  The CTA workforce would be hit hard as well to ease a projected $300 million budget shortfall.

• Up to 1,100 union jobs and 100 administrative position are slated for elimination if new public funding and employee concessions fail to occur, transit officials said.

  "Union employees have been relatively untouched by layoffs [in recent years]," said CTA President Richard Rodriguez. "We are asking the unions to step up and be a part of the solution."

For this being such a "union" town, the union leadership sure seem in a hurry to give back all sorts of negotiated items for zero concessions by the City. We're sure the SEIU, the bus drivers, Streets, Transportation, the trades and laborers are really wondering about those endorsements and give-backs to a Machine that is gutting them.