Posted on 01/20/2006 12:07:50 PM PST by areafiftyone
NEW YORK (AP) The union that crippled New York City's transit system last month with a three-day strike has rejected its contract.
Fire 'em all!
Please send them home...and put Roger Toussant in jail where he belongs.
Uh OH...
The union that crippled New York City's transit system last month with a three-day strike finished voting Friday on the contract deal that ended the walkout.
The results of the vote are scheduled to be announced Friday afternoon.
Members of the Transport Workers Union have until noon to cast a ballot for or against ratification. The results of the referendum are expected to be available to union leaders almost immediately and are likely be announced publicly later in the day.
TWU Local 100 President Roger Toussaint, who persuaded more than 33,000 subway and bus workers to walk off the job in December, has campaigned for a "yes'' vote.
A small faction of union dissenters has opposed it, arguing it makes too many concessions to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
If approved, the contract would go before the MTA's governing board next Wednesday for a second ratification vote.
A final resolution may also hinge on action by state lawmakers, who will be asked to make legal changes necessary to give transit workers a $110 million refund of pension plan contributions.
Aides to Gov. George Pataki had indicated in late December that he was displeased with that aspect of the deal and might veto the legislation, but the MTA has also agreed to pick up the cost of the refunds if the bill fails.
A state judge in Brooklyn also has yet to decide how much of a penalty union leaders and members will face for participating in the strike, which was barred by state law.
Local 100 has already been fined $3 million for the walkout. Penalties have yet to be set for Toussaint and other union chiefs. The city has also sued to recover economic damages related to the strike, which came at the height of the holiday shopping season.
As a person who is making a trip to NY next month... I don't want to walk all the way from Newark.
LOL you can always cab it but you would have to make sure you take a meter cab. The Gypsy cabs will rip you off if there is a strike on!
The PATH is not impacted, it's run by the Port Authority, not the MTA.
The contract was widely held as being utterly favorable to the union. If they reject it now, they are demonstrating that they really have no shame.
If they strike again, it will be in the Springtime. There will be no bitter winter weather and Christmas shopping season to act as their enforcer.
These turds really need to be crushed.
Well, you won't have to walk all the way from Newark. NJ Transit and the PATH trains should take you into Manhattan.
Just because they rejected the contract doesn't necessarily mean they go back on an illegal strike. Many New York City unions have worked without a contract for years.
Breaking News: Transit Workers Reject Contract Agreement
(New York - WABC, January 20, 2006) - The city's 33,000 union transit workers, one month to the day after they stranded 7 million riders with a crippling three-day strike, voted Friday to reject their new three-year contract.The news is just coming in to the Eyewitness Newsroom the TWU 100 union workers rejected the package offered during negotiations that ended the three day transit strike in December.
Of the 22,451 votes cast, Eyewitness News is told that there were 11,227 yes votes, and 11,234 no votes.
We'll have the latest here as it's available. Hit refresh for updates.
11,227 yes votes, and 11,234 no votes.
Wow, that's close.
WABC-TV - the contract lost by 7 votes out of 22,000. The contract goes to binding arbitration by law.
Who handled the ballot box?
Chad
LMAO!
First name Hanging?
Nah, Dimpled.
He saw the light
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