Seven members of a union representing Boston-area transit workers, including its president, were arrested early Thursday while protesting plans to privatize the system’s cash handling system.
The arrests occurred after picketers assembled outside the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s so-called “money room” to prevent workers and armored cars from entering the facility in the city’s Charlestown section.
Hours later, the MBTA’s Fiscal and Management Control Board voted 4-0 to award Virginia-based Brink’s a five-year, $18.7 million contract to oversee the money room, a move expected to save the agency about $8 million annually.
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