Posted on 12/22/2005 8:24:55 AM PST by minus_273
NEW YORK - Transit union leaders agreed Thursday to urge striking employees to return to work while talks aimed at seeking a permanent settlement of New York’s crippling mass transit walkout, a state mediator said.
The recommendation must be approved by the union's executive board and its membership. If approved, it was not immediately clear how quickly the striking employees would return to work.
"Both parties have a genuine desire to resolve their differences," said Richard Curreri, head of a three-member state mediation panel. "They have agreed to resume negotiations while the TWU takes steps to return its membership."
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I just hope that they don't give in to all of the TWU demands.
i'd like to see them fined and jailed as well
Looks like Toussaint didn't want to play catch at Rikers.
We shall see. If the union goes back to work with better term than the ones that they went on strike with the strike essentially worked. I hope all the fines, at least, stick.
Negotiate nothing. Leave it standing at what was last offered. They should not be rewarded for the walk out.
One hopes that the fines stick. If they don't, the other unions will be emboldened.
I saw a clip of a New York commuter walking to work. He wasn't happy. "I wish Reagan was back. He would fire every one of the son-of-a-bitches."
Give NO GROUND AT ALL on the pensions. 55 is not in line with reality.
Enforce the fines no matter what the resolution.
The very fact that any sort of negotion took place during the illegal strike is an absolute victory for the union. Anything beyond this is gravy.
There is a poll at the bottom of the MSNBC article: Should transit workers be fired: 67% say yes.
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