Roger Toussaint
Roger Toussaint
Roger Toussaintwas the President of Transport Workers UnionLocal 100, the union of New York City Transit Authority employees in New York City and former Vice President of Strategic Planning for the parent union, an international organization...
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The contract they offered would leave the next generation of transit workers behind, and we will not accept that. We have voted to begin a series of strikes that will start with private bus lines and then spread to MTA properties.
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The executive board voted to begin a series of strikes, first out on some of the private bus lines and then extending onto MTA properties.
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It is a fight over dignity and respect on the job. To our riders, we ask for your understanding.
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We did not want a strike, but apparently the MTA, the governor and mayor did.
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We're not talking about a new strike. We're saying that we want a negotiated settlement, not one imposed through arbitration.
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They're not going to force a lousy contract down our throats. We have told them from the beginning that this contract will be negotiated by bargaining in good faith and not by threats and not by intimidation.
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There will be nothing happening in the next few days. It is too early to say what happens now. This will take some time to figure out.
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The remarks by Chairman Kalikow are very unfortunate and do not bode well for these negotiations.
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Despite the fact that there is limited time left, ... we still expect that our contract will be resolved well before midnight tonight.
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This contract between the MTA and the Transport Workers Union should have been a no-brainer. Sadly that has not been the case.
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After six years of round-the-clock work to move our union forward, the chance for a little sleep and a rest from my cell phone maybe aren't so bad.
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This is a fight over whether hard work will be rewarded with a decent retirement.
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This is a fight over dignity and respect on the job, a concept that is very alien to the MTA. Transit workers are tired of being underappreciated and disrespected.
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I will do 30 years before transit workers surrender. Working people have tried to obey the law, and we have gotten nothing but insults for it.