It’s not just subway riders getting cheated by the MTA, a new lawsuit claims.
Dozens of MTA workers who say they have been cheated out of their pay for years are suing the cash-strapped agency in a class-action that could cost taxpayers millions.
The Manhattan federal lawsuit, filed Thursday, claims that three MTA subsidiaries have been shortchanging their computer workers out of overtime pay for years.
The lawsuit also accuses the three units of paying their computer workers less than staffers doing the same exact jobs at other MTA units, like the NYC Transit.
“If we succeeded it’s many millions of dollars — many tens of millions of dollars,” lawyer Authur Schwartz said of the allegedly stiffed workers.
“Which I hate to say because the MTA needs money,” he added.
The lawsuit accuses the MTA units — including Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority, or MABSTOA, the MTA Bus Company and MTA Headquarters — of violating pay laws for potentially thousands of workers.
The MTA didn’t immediately return a request for comment.