Posted on 12/22/2005 8:09:56 AM PST by areafiftyone
After meeting with both sides through the night, state mediators have devised a preliminary framework for a settlement of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority contract dispute that would allow strikers to return to work later today, according to four people close to the negotiations.
The people emphasized that the details of a final settlement would take at least a day or two longer to be finalized, although buses and subways would be running before that.
The agreement, they said, would give every side some of what it asked for.
It would allow Gov. George E. Pataki to save face because the final negotiations would not take place until the strikers return to work, the people said, and it would apparently allow the union's president, Roger Toussaint, to save face because, they believe, the authority's pension demands - which are at the crux of the deadlock - have been significantly scaled back.
The mediators were appointed by the state's Public Employment Relations Board on Tuesday afternoon after the union declared a strike at 3 a.m. that day and the authority said the talks had reached an impasse.
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I think your predictions are right on the money.
Why wouldn't it be?
It's worked for them three times already!
(((( SIGH )))) I just get tired of the NYC bashing sometimes.
Agreeing to allow the vote as to whether they should or should not go back to work is not a settlemen. Of course the NYSlimes uses the slick willie dictionary.
It's a Pyrrhic victory for the city then.
LOL! That is hysterical !
1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) BREAKING: A state mediator says the striking union and the transit authority have agreed to resume negotiations while transit workers take steps to return to work.
Transit workers will take steps to restore service to New York's buses and subways while the union and transit authority resume negotiations after a three-day strike, a state mediator announced Thursday morning.
No timetable was announced for the restoration of service.
"Both parties have a genuine desire to resolve their differences,'' said Richard Curreri, head of a three-member state mediation panel. "They have agreed to resume negotiations while the TWU takes steps to return its membership.''
And where does the city go to get the money it lost back?
The words guts and Pataki should not be used in the same breath. The man is a wholly owned subsidiary of various special interest groups.
The city blinked.
But this is bullsh**.
A media blackout?!
Since when do those scumbags get to dictate to the media what they will and will not report.
I can't believe they postponed Toussaint's court date and allowed those snakes to get away with this.
Path trains, the IRT, LIRR, the whole works.
You've got to admire his persistence.
Or at the very least, his insanity.
Settlement = Move out of New York City.. and work someplace else.. many problems solved..
Wonder if they can file a class action suit against the TWU for loss of revenue.
If they get ANYTHING that they asked for...than it's a huge win for them and a defeat for every other city that relies of mass transit...
His veeps want him in jail, they're at war with him.
It's too early to call this 'settled'.
Toussaint has to go to his board for approval to send the workers back.
I'm listening to a retired police officer talking to Gambling right now.
Talking about arbitration.
I can't believe the reasoning of some of these people.
Well if he knows whats good for him he better. The judge will give him jail time otherwise. I think that is what scared him.
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