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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. In December 2005, the TWU Local 100 called a strike in New York City.
Then things escalated following another assault on Friday. A 66-year-old woman riding a train in the Financial District was clobbered with a golf club by a masked brute around 7:30 a.m. — in ...
In 1966, the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) and Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) called a strike action in New York City after the expiration of their contract with the New York City Transit Authority (TA). It was the first strike against the TA; pre-TWU transit strikes in 1905, 1910, 1916, and 1919 against the then-private transit ...
Roger Toussaint is an American worker who led the December 20th, 2005 New York City transit strike which lasted three days and shut down bus and subway service in the city. Toussaint was the president of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 in New York City (NYC) from January 2001 through December 2009.
ALBANY, NY — NYPD officers will be posted on every overnight subway train for the next six months under a new plan by Gov. Kathy Hochul to tackle rising transit violence. Hochul unveiled the ...
A 1980 transit strike in New York City halted service on the New York City Transit Authority (a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority) for the first time since 1966. Around 33,000 members of Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 walked off their jobs on April 1, 1980, in a strike with the goal of increasing the wage for ...
Transit officials are growing more concerned fare beating will grow more common among New Yorkers from all walks of life. MTA, NYPD struggle to rein in rising fare evasion on NYC buses and subways ...
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