Union Says NYC Transit Strike Is Over

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/business/labor_and_workplace

Union Says NYC Transit Strike Is Over
AP - 4 minutes ago
NEW YORK - The city's crippling three-day mass transit strike ended Thursday after union leaders — facing mounting fines, possible jail terms and the wrath of millions of commuters — voted to return their 33,000 members to work without a new contract. Union board members who emerged from the organization's headquarters said workers will return to their job sites starting with the next shifts. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of returning to work, and resuming negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.


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that is all it says, for now.

just saw another article, someone else might want to post: *edit: i posted it below, since i'd already blocked anyone from reposting in LBN, sorry.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/72cdc142-7303-11da-8b42-0000779e2340.html


peace!

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/72cdc142-7303-11da-8b42-0000779e2340.html

Union votes to end NY transit strike
By Christopher Grimes in New York
Published: December 22 2005 15:57 | Last updated: December 22 2005 19:50

New York’s striking subway and bus workers on Thursday voted to end their three-day strike. Transport Workers Union Local 100 leaders urged its workers to go back to work.

The union’s board voted 36-5 with two abstentions to accept the return-to-work plan. Full service is not expected to be restored for another 10-14 hours.

The signs of progress came after New York officials used the threats of large fines and possible criminal charges against union leaders to turn up the heat on strikers. Union leaders had been ordered to appear in a Brooklyn court on Thursday to face possible charges of criminal contempt, but the hearing was postponed.

New York City depends on public transportation more than any other city in the US, a point that has been driven home by the sight of workers walking across bridges or crowding around Pennsylvania station, where some commuter rail services were still available.

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sorry, wish i'd seen this article first, before posting the OP one. thought i'd best post this one too, since someone else now can't post another on LBN. oops!


peace!

is aimed mostly at the MTA, but the corporate media choose to report the opposite..

The thugs gotta have means to spread their lies, other than astroturfers on DU with a DINO as an avatar.

We are valuable commodities. Not so much dead weight to be abused by the rich and powerful. WE hold the power, not a few with money. WE can shut this country down. We can build or destroy America. We are the powerful.

Just remember that the next time you feel weak and unimportant. You hold all the cards. Not them

What concessions did they get?

The mediator ordered a media blackout.

The city was blowing the union off before. This may have just been to bring them to the table.

a grain of salt.


peace!

hate that crap:mad:

TWU Local 100 Executive Board Votes to End Strike, Return to Work


Dec. 22-The first NYC system-wide transit strike in 25 years ended today. Local 100 had to walk out to stop the TA’s 11th hour pension ambush. We walked out strong, and we walk back stronger.

Thousands of transit workers have been on freezing cold picket lines around the clock for three days. The vote of the TWU Local 100 Executive Board to overwhelmingly accept the recommendation of theNew York State Mediators means we will now start reporting to work.

In the face of an unprecedented media assault, the average New Yorker supported the TWU and blamed the MTA for the strike. Our riders knew we did not abandon them, and they did not abandon us. Public support from unions, communities, clergy and elected officials helped create the atmosphere for an end to the strike.

The details will be coming to all transit workers very soon.

Every TWU member should be proud that our Union stood up for justice.

Stay United! Stay Strong!

http://www.twulocal100.org/