{"id":1901,"date":"2006-12-15T11:09:55","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T19:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/one_year_later.html"},"modified":"2006-12-15T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T19:09:55","slug":"one_year_later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/one_year_later.html","title":{"rendered":"One Year Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that whole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/citywide\/transitstrike\/index.htm\">Transit Strike<\/a> thing that happened, oh, like a year ago? There actually may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/newyork\/ny-nycon155016328dec15,0,2905506.story?coll=ny-nynews-print\">some movement towards a new contract<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A year after the transit contract expired, union workers could learn today whether they finally have a new deal and whether their leader survived a bruising re-election battle.<\/p>\n<p>Their 60-hour strike began last Dec. 20, crippling the city at the height of the holiday shopping season.<\/p>\n<p>Once the strike ended, the union&#8217;s members rejected the contract negotiated by their leaders, throwing the matter into binding arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Dellaverson, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority&#8217;s director of labor relations, said the arbitrator&#8217;s decision could be delivered as early as today.<\/p>\n<p>The president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, Roger Toussaint, has said he expects the final contract to be very similar to the original deal negotiated after the strike.<\/p>\n<p>That includes a first-time health insurance premium of 1.5 percent of workers&#8217; gross pay.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that whole Transit Strike thing that happened, oh, like a year ago? There actually may be some movement towards a new contract: A year after the transit contract expired, union workers could learn today whether they finally have a new deal and whether their leader survived a bruising re-election battle. Their 60-hour strike began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","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=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}