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In an unrelated strike in summer 1980, PATH employees went on strike for 81 days. [33] It was one of the longest strikes in the PATH's history. [34] The strike inspired rappers Duke Bootee and Melle Mel to write the song "The Message", which was recorded by Melle's group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and released in 1982 on the Sugar ...
A closed entrance to the 45th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.. The 2005 New York City transit strike, held from December 20 through 22, 2005, was the third strike ever by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 against New York City's Transit Authority and involved between 32,000 and 34,000 strikers.
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The true sources of power in New York became clear, a point that would be further driven home by 1967 and 1968 teachers strikes and a 1968 strike by sanitation workers. [3] By the time Lindsay ran for re-election in 1969 as the candidate of the Liberal Party of New York , he had made his peace with the public sector unions, and ultimately won ...
The New York City Subway tried to keep its budget balanced between spending and revenue, so deferred maintenance became more common, which drew a slow but steady decline of the system and rolling stock. Furthermore, the workers were consolidated into the Transport Workers Union in 1968. A pension was set up, and workers were allowed to retire ...
Nigel, a man from Queens who has been riding New York City mass transit for over 20 years, said he still likes the subway — but acknowledged that it needs more development to improve cleanliness ...
It’s every New Yorker’s worst nightmare. A Big Apple straphanger was shoved onto Manhattan subway tracks and struck by an incoming 1 train in a cowardly attack Tuesday — miraculously ...
(Reuters) - The New York Times Tech Guild is ending a week-long strike that started one day before the U.S. presidential election and will return to work on Tuesday, it said in a post on X on Monday.