The contract they offered would leave the next generation of transit workers behind, and we will not accept that. We have voted to begin a series of strikes that will start with private bus lines and then spread to MTA properties.
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We will communicate with the MTA the results of this vote and we will reach out to meet with them in the near future.
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We paid the price in millions of dollars in fines, 10 times that for our members, and face impending loss of dues check off which is going to hemorrhage the finances of our union. But you cannot take on a fight like this and not get bloodied. We are still here standing before you bloodied but unbowed.
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I'll go in. Jail is not a problem.
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We tried to bargain with the MTA. We negotiated well past our contract deadline because we wanted to get a deal done and we still do.
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New Yorkers, this is a fight over whether hard work will be rewarded with a decent retirement, a fight over the erosion or eventual elimination of health benefit coverage for the working people of New York, it is a fight over dignity and respect on the job.
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