When asked if union leaders’ allegations had any validity, spokesman Raymond McConville released the following statement to Patch on Wednesday:
“This is nothing more than noise from the union that is meant to distract from actual issues that need to be negotiated at the bargaining table. The reality is that our management workforce is doing an admirable job serving our customers during this strike. Since the strike began, we’ve cleared more than 80,000 service issues and our maintenance load isn’t very different than what it was before the strike began. Those are the facts.”