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April 25, 2006
If you're going to protest going to jail after leading an illegal transit strike for three days, then you might as well with the Reverend Al Sharpton, teachers union head Randi Weingarten, and about a thousand other supporters. And according to plan, many members of various unions are starting to view Roger Toussaint as a martyr, versus the main guy who inconvenienced the city (well, it's him and MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow). Toussaint headed... [continue]
| April 20, 2006
Interesting fact about the fines imposed on the Transport Workers Union over last December's strike. The TWU can resume collecting membership dues (about $1.5 million per month) if TWU president says the union will never strike again. The thing is that TWU president Roger Toussaint has been pretty adamant about the right to strike, and it'd be unlikely he'd go for it... even though it seems like the union might want some sort of leadership... [continue]
April 18, 2006
Two times is a charm for the Transport Workers Union! After narrowly rejecting the first contract by seven votes in January, and now after their union has been hit with millions in fines just yesterday, 71% of the Transport Workers Union have approved the original contract. But since the MTA claims that they are not offering this now union-approved contract any longer, we expect there to be either binding arbitration or some serious tete-a-tetes... [continue]
Brooklyn Supreme Court's Justice Theodore Jones nailed the transit union with a huge $2.5 million fine yesterday, plus ordered the union to stop collecting dues, and the Transport Workers Union vowed to appeal the decision. The loss for the TWU could be over $7 million all told, since the TWU takes in $1.6 million in dues each month and the union cannot appeal the dues payment stoppage for three months. The TWU will now have... [continue]
April 17, 2006
Yikes - Judge Theodore Jones just ruled that the Transport Workers Union must pay a $2.5 million fine for the three-day transit strike! And what's more, the TWU cannot deduct union dues from MTA employee paychecks (which is what they automatically do now) for three months. The TWU had complained that a big fine, plus not being able to draw monthly dues, would cripple them (who knew they have over a million in unpaid bills!),... [continue]
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April 7, 2006
The Transport Workers Union is having its members re-vote on the striked-for contract that was ultimately rejected in January, but there are still some TWU members who want workers to reject the contract again. According to the NY Times, the dissidents claim that a revote "undermines the union democracy" but the TWU's stance has been that some workers misunderstood (or were deliberately mislead) about what the contract included. Overall, the TWU has been trying to... [continue]