{"id":625,"date":"2006-01-24T09:37:48","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T17:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/what_do_we_want_a_straight-up_vote_without_the_possibility_of_binding_arbitration_when_do_we_want_it_now.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:35:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:35:38","slug":"what_do_we_want_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/what_do_we_want_1.html","title":{"rendered":"What Do We Want? A Straight-Up Vote Without The Possibility Of Binding Arbitration! When Do We Want It? Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After transit workers rejected their proposed contract<\/a>, the Daily News reports that TWU Local 100 is unhappy about the MTA’s moving to take the contract to binding arbitration<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Bus and subway workers will fight the MTA’s move toward binding arbitration — with some even raising the possibility yesterday of a second illegal strike.<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants the state Public Employment Relations Board to form a panel that could decide the terms of a contract. It will file paperwork to start the process this week, MTA spokesman Tom Kelly said.<\/p>\n

Ed Watt, the top deputy to Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint, said union leaders would “do all we can to make sure that [binding arbitration] doesn’t happen.”<\/p>\n

But leaders of a dissident group, which fought the tentative contract, went even further.<\/p>\n

Transit Workers for a Just Contract called for a strike authorization vote by workers if the MTA pushes aggressively for binding arbitration. In one of its flyers, it asked workers to “prepare for a possible resumption of our strike. We’ve shown that we can and will shut the city down.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Striking over pensions is one thing — it’s a ready-made Magazine<\/a> or Week in Review<\/a> article! — but walking out to avoid binding arbitration?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After transit workers rejected their proposed contract, the Daily News reports that TWU Local 100 is unhappy about the MTA’s moving to take the contract to binding arbitration: Bus and subway workers will fight the MTA’s move toward binding arbitration — with some even raising the possibility yesterday of a second illegal strike. The Metropolitan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","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=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}