{"id":806,"date":"2006-03-13T07:42:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T15:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/that_ultimately_fruitless_strike_pays_off.html"},"modified":"2006-03-13T07:42:44","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T15:42:44","slug":"that_ultimately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/that_ultimately.html","title":{"rendered":"That Ultimately Fruitless Strike Pays Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Striking MTA workers will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/399233p-338268c.html\">start having their pay docked without even having a new contract<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The MTA will start docking workers&#8217; pay next week as punishment for their three-day strike in December, Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Tom Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p>The walkout, which the union contends was provoked during ultimately fruitless negotiations, was a violation of the state Taylor Law. Workers were not paid for their days on the picket lines. Now another three days of earnings will be deducted from two paychecks &#8212; one coming on March 23 and the other issued two weeks later, Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They staged an illegal strike, and this is part of the penalty,&#8221; Kelly said, adding that workers should give up any hopes the penalty will be waived.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It [the deduction] will happen,&#8221; Kelly said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striking MTA workers will start having their pay docked without even having a new contract: The MTA will start docking workers&#8217; pay next week as punishment for their three-day strike in December, Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Tom Kelly said. The walkout, which the union contends was provoked during ultimately fruitless negotiations, was a violation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}