{"id":1121,"date":"2006-06-05T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/arbitrator-shmarbitrator.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:14:49","slug":"arbitratorshmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/arbitratorshmar.html","title":{"rendered":"Arbitrator-Shmarbitrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shorter strike news (remember that transit strike?) &#8212; TWU Local 100 President Roger Toussaint <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/69536.htm\">vows to disregard any arbitrated settlement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>MTA officials said yesterday they&#8217;re not concerned with Transport Workers Union boss Roger Toussaint&#8217;s vow to defy the decision of an independent arbitrator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems to me to be just an embattled union leader trying to rally his troops,&#8221; MTA spokesman Tim O&#8217;Brien said.<\/p>\n<p>In a column by Toussaint that appears in this month&#8217;s union newsletter, he lashed out at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Gov. Pataki, and the arbitration process imposed by the state&#8217;s Public Employment Relations Board.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be no binding-arbitration decision jammed down our throats,&#8221; he said, even before the three-member panel has had a chance to meet.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shorter strike news (remember that transit strike?) &#8212; TWU Local 100 President Roger Toussaint vows to disregard any arbitrated settlement: MTA officials said yesterday they&#8217;re not concerned with Transport Workers Union boss Roger Toussaint&#8217;s vow to defy the decision of an independent arbitrator. &#8220;It seems to me to be just an embattled union leader trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}