Wednesday, October 4, 2006 – 2:45 pm
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Not content with leaving you stranded for three days in the middle of winter last year, Roger Toussaint apparently thinks going on strike has escalated him to some sort celebrity status.
Toussaint is trying to pawn off his […]
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 – 7:03 am
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Theodore Jones said yesterday that TWU Local 100 President Roger Toussaint should do jail time for heading up and organizing the transit strike that crippled the city for three days this past December.
Jones also hit Toussaint with a $1,000 fine.
“This strike was illegal,” said Jones, citing the state’s Taylor […]
Friday, January 20, 2006 – 3:15 pm
Get ready to start walking again New York.
The city’s union transit workers, one month to
the day after they stranded 7 million riders with a crippling three-day
strike, have rejected their new three-year contract.
The deal was
rejected by a margin of seven votes during two and a half days of
online and telephone voting. Their union had reached an […]
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 – 9:38 am
A packed Brooklyn courtroom sat in silence yesterday as the prosecutor played a 911 call and the last words of a dying detective. The detective and his partner had both been shot in East Flatbush while attempting to apprehend a suspect.
The TWU workers still have to approve the contract agreed on by the MTA and […]
Monday, January 2, 2006 – 6:56 pm
So we rang in this New Year exactly the same way we rang it in last year. In bed, with the flu. We’re going to have to start celebrating Chinese New Year to get our money’s worth.
For our money jaykayess closed out 2005 with one of the funniest comments we’ve read. Of course it could […]
Thursday, December 29, 2005 – 9:57 am
From their headline above the Daily News is none to happy to learn about part of the new TWU contract that actually refunds monies that were overpaid into the pension fund since 2000. One thing is clear however, the TWU strike got an MTA that insisted it couldn’t budge to come running to meet the […]
Tuesday, December 27, 2005 – 11:45 pm
All’s well that ends well?
Toussaint said the contract provided "for a host of other provisions
that will go a long way to help in improving the relations" between
transit workers and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which
runs the nation’s largest mass transit system.
The deal
establishes a "greater degree of respect and appreciation for the
sacrifices that our members undertake in […]
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