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.
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.''
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.