The cuts are the latest development in the agency's multi-year transition from a system that largely relied on workers stationed in toll booths to collect cash to one that uses E-ZPass as well as automated license readers that generate mailed bills.
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Messages seeking comment were not returned by Teamsters officials at union offices in the Philadelphia suburbs and Pittsburgh. The turnpike said employees were notified earlier Tuesday.
The agency said a conversion to all-electronic tolling that was adopted in mid-March because of the COVID-19 pandemic will become permanent.
Traffic has fallen by almost half compared to a year ago, and the agency said it also wanted to avoid having to shut down entire interchanges when a worker has tested positive for the coronavirus.
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"I deeply regret that we have reached this point, but the world has been irrevocably changed by the global pandemic," chief executive Mark Compton said in a statement. "This pandemic had a much greater impact than anyone could have foreseen."
The job losses will begin June 18, and the commission said some health benefits will remain in place for two years.
-- The Associated Press contributed to this report.