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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We extend thanks to our riders and to our members for the support that they have received in the last couple of weeks of difficulty.
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Our members will stand together and stand firm, and make sure the organization is not broken.
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We got the major items that were important to our members with respect to lifetime medical coverage and with respect to a pension rebate worth a lot of money. We made a concession in respect to the health benefits ... We consider that to be an appropriate and fair resolution to the strike.
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I'd like to thank all the members of Local 100 for their unerring supporting and perseverance in the course of these very difficult past few weeks. We'd also like to thank the riders and working people of New York for their patience, forbearance and understanding, for the equally difficult time spent by this entire city.
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The members came to doubt that the key benefits of the deal would be forthcoming.
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Unless there is a substantial movement by the authority, trains and buses will come to a halt as of midnight tonight.
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Were it not for the pension piece, we would not be out on strike. All it needs to do is take its pension proposal off the table.
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We have no progress to report. That's not good because we have precious little time before the deadline approaches.
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We have no progress to report, and that is not good.
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What the MTA has decided to do is pour poison on the deal in order to provide ammunition to the opposition, in hopes of having the contract voted down. It seems as if a decision was made by the state to sink the contract.
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We tried to bargain with the MTA. We negotiated well past our contract deadline because we wanted to get a deal done, and we still do.
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My message is let transit workers decide and determine their own fate. Don't get involved in the business and affairs of our union. If you make a deal, stick to it.
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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.
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That explains why he has been muscling and intervening in these negotiations all along, why the chairman has been taking instructions from the mayor. There's an agenda at stake here.