smash NY taylor law

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herb :

   friday it may happen .....



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 daily news 
 monday 


" Brian McLaughlin, president of the New York City
Central Labor Council,
 a group of 375 local unions,
 pitch a  transit union solidarity fund  proposal 
  to other labor leaders today"

His show of support came with the

" bus and subway
workers' contract is set to expire
 at 12:01 a.m. Friday"

" workers have authorized 
 an illegal strike--
 which could mean huge fines  
         for
employees and the union"

------------ under the state's
  "infamous"
  pub sec anti  strike law 
a bum called " taylor " -----------------

"If they decide to have a work stoppage, there would be
fines and other monetary repercussions," McLaughlin
told The News. "The solidarity fund would go a long way
as far as the labor movement saying to transit workers
that, 'Your struggle is our struggle.'"

"We just want them to be treated fairly," he said.
"Their success or failure impacts on millions of other
workers."

"A hearing was set for today 
on a state bid for an order
prohibiting the union 
from instigating, planning or
waging a strike"

"The biggest hurdle in the contentious talks
, meanwhile,
seems to be pensions"

"Union leaders have insisted they won't agree to
diminished benefits for future workers"


"The MTA has offered 
the more than 33,000
 bus and subway workers 
a two-year pact, 
with a 3% raise in the first
year. A 2% raise would follow--
but only if total sick
days used drop "

"The MTA wants new hires
 to contribute 3% 
of their
earnings toward pensions 
granted at age 62. 
Current
employees contribute 2% toward pensions 
they can
collect at 55 "

"Pension costs have tripled 
in the past three years
 to
$450 million"

But Transport Workers Union Local 100 President
 Roger
Toussaint 
said the union  won't 'sell out the unborn'"

"Union officials say workers shouldn't have to suffer
given the MTA's year-end $1 billion surplus"



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* TWU Local 100 
 http://twulocal100.org/?q=node/409

TWU Local 100 President Roger Toussaint