The MBTA is suing one of its unions after an arbitrator ruled it needs to reinstate a supervisor accused of sexual and racial harassment who the agency fired two years ago.
The T filed the lawsuit earlier this month against the MBTA Inspector’s Union Local 600, challenging an arbitrator’s ruling that former Red Line Chief Inspector Patrick Goggin be given his job back.
According to court documents, Goggin was terminated in June 2023 following an investigation by the T’s Office of Diversity and Civil Rights. Investigators found he made “an inappropriate comment of a sexual nature” during work hours to a subordinate and “treated women of color differently than other employees, holding them to a stricter standard of conduct.”…