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Bluebear

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Thu Dec-22-05 01:11 AM
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Possible end to NYC transit strike?

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Edited on Thu Dec-22-05 01:11 AM by Bluebear

NEW YORK - Threatened with huge fines and possible jail time, the city's transit union suggested Wednesday that it would be willing to end a strike that has shut down bus and subway service for two days — if a plan to change workers' pensions were dropped....

"Were it not for the pension piece, we would not be out on strike," Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint said in an interview with New York-based all-news channel NY1. "All it needs to do is take its pension proposal off the table."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051222/ap_on_re_us/nyc_transit_strike

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