{"id":666,"date":"2006-02-06T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/take_a_mulligan.html"},"modified":"2006-02-06T10:30:35","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T18:30:35","slug":"take_a_mulligan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/take_a_mulligan.html","title":{"rendered":"Take A Mulligan!"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting idea for the Transport Workers Union — just vote again on the narrowly rejected contract<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There may be a simple solution to the complicated subway and bus contract mess: Put the narrowly rejected pact up for another vote.<\/p>\n

If given a second chance, transit workers would pass the contract that fell by a mere seven votes last month, union leaders and workers told the Daily News.<\/p>\n

“As each day passes, more and more have feelings of regret,” said Mike Morales, a Local 100 executive board member. “If we got an opportunity to see the same package today, and vote on it, I think it would be overwhelmingly approved.”<\/p>\n

Nothing prohibits the TWU from calling for another vote on the proposed 37-month deal, which was struck after an illegal three-day, pre-Christmas strike.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

MTA officials declined to say what the agency would do if the 33,700 union members — who stand to lose two days’ pay for each day on strike — go back and approve the rejected deal.<\/p>\n

The MTA’s current offer, which has been submitted to the state Public Employment Relations Board for possible arbitration, has the same 10.9% pay-raise structure, though the raises would be spread over 39 months instead of 37 months.<\/p>\n

But it also revives one provision — new workers pay 4% of their wages for their pension plan — and drops a pension refund for about 20,000 workers that Gov. Pataki had opposed.<\/p>\n

One transit worker who played a leading role in the grass-roots campaign against the rejected deal conceded the pact would pass now because of the MTA’s current offer.<\/p>\n

“People are worried now,” the activist said. “That really shook them up.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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