NEW YORK TIMES "New York City’s surge in parking summonses may be costing motorists, but it has been a boon to traffic enforcement agents, at least a third of whom have substantially increased their pay with hefty overtime earnings, city records show.
"More than 700 agents increased their wages by 20 percent with overtime in the 2008 fiscal year. Some raised their pay by 50 percent or more. One agent even managed to double his income.
"In all, the city doled out $13 million in overtime pay, on top of $68 million in regular pay to its traffic agents. But in terms of pure economics, it has been a worthy investment: Ticket agents generated $578.6 million in revenues for the city in fiscal 2008, up from $366.6 million in 2002."
****the two people most responsible for the city residents and visitors getting screwed are bloomberg the mayor who ordered the blitz and james huntley, the chief at C W A local 1182 which is the local for the agents, who delight in human misery.
what makes this whole deal worse is that the city's traffic agents are nasty, vicious and more than anything else fat and out of condition, not to mention unkempt most of the time.
1. when a car is double parked, the agent blocks the car from moving and gives out a ticket even though the driver was dropping off a handicapped person.
2. in a no parking zone of 7am to 10am, the agent gives out a ticket to a driver who is in the car at 959am
3. when a driver fell asleep at a meter where he had put in money and it expired, the agent gave the sleeping driver a ticket without bothering to even wake him.
we are betting that an investigation into the finances of james huntley and his union will show that things are not the way they should be. take a close look at his expense account.
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