Reply #2: Actually this appears to be a modest win for the union.

[Warren Stupidity]

The MTA was trying to move the retirement age from 55 to 62, add a 6% pension contribution from new hires and a larger increase in health insurance contributions.

The whoremedia is playing this as a management victory over a confused and misguided union leadership, but I beg to differ: management caved under pressure and the basically union held the line on their pension and health benefits, added in modest pay raises, improved retiree health benefits and improved work rules. You will have to search through the corporate bullshit to figure this out though.