Why not reduce CTA labor costs?

With all the games that politicians are playing to find ways to fund the CTA budget through the taxpayers pockets, I find it odd that nobody has looked to the one place that truly is the source of many of CTA's budget woes -- the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308.

Why is it that, in the private sector, employees are being laid off en masse and the remaining staff are required to multi-task three and four times over, but the CTA employees are gainfully employed without a fear in the world of being laid off?

Ron Hubermann, Mayor Daley's promising new CTA administrator, has not discovered a way to cut costs like most CEOs of private sector companies?

I believe that because of Mayor Daley's Pro-Union stance, there will be nothing done to mitigate the union's demands and reduce CTA costs.

S. Herling

Mount Prospect