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Monday, April 24, 2006

Roger Toussaint, the transit workers' union president, will report to jail after a send-off march across the Brooklyn Bridge with union members and la

Roger Toussaint, the transit workers' union president, will report to jail after a send-off march across the Brooklyn Bridge with union members and labor leaders
Source: NYT
Insisting that the state's Taylor Law, which prohibits strikes by public employees, was biased against labor, he said authority officials had engaged in illegal behavior but were not being punished. Even though the Taylor Law bars public-sector employers and unions from insisting on pension changes in contract talks, the authority's negotiators demanded that the union agree to a far less generous pension plan for new transit workers.

 



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