{"id":544,"date":"2005-12-19T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T00:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/has_it_really_come_down_to_a_three-day_weekend.html"},"modified":"2005-12-19T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T00:11:09","slug":"has_it_really_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/has_it_really_c.html","title":{"rendered":"Has It Really Come Down To A Three-Day Weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/18\/nyregion\/nyregionspecial3\/18cnd-mta.html?ex=1292562000&#038;en=84cb9139ce1813c1&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">the Times reported over the weekend<\/a>, for semi-complex legal reasons, the issue of pensions may be off the table, and in fact the issue never came up at TWU President Roger Toussaint&#8217;s morning press conference announcing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/front\/story\/376045p-319460c.html\">the partial strike already underway<\/a>. Instead, the union seems to be focusing pay raises of six percent a year (down from eight percent) and . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/1010wins.com\/topstories\/local_story_353095542.html\">Martin Luther King, Jr. Day off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it? MLK, Jr. Day to avoid a strike? What&#8217;s complicated here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Times reported over the weekend, for semi-complex legal reasons, the issue of pensions may be off the table, and in fact the issue never came up at TWU President Roger Toussaint&#8217;s morning press conference announcing the partial strike already underway. Instead, the union seems to be focusing pay raises of six percent a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i_dont_get_it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}