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Transit union fined 2.5 million dollars for New York strike
Apr 18, 2006, 16:32 GMT
New York - After sentencing a transit union leader to a 10- day jail term, a judge has fined the union 2.5 million dollars for the three-day strike that hobbled New York just days before last Christmas, news reports said Tuesday.
The fine was ordered late Monday by New York State Supreme Court Judge Theodore Jones, who last week sent Roger Toussaint, leader of the union of about 40,000 subway and bus workers, to jail.
Toussaint ordered the strike over a contract dispute with the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
The walkout crippled the city of 8 million at the height of the holiday shopping season, costing the local economy 4 billion dollars, according to city officials.
Subway and bus workers, who returned to work on Christmas Eve, still have no contract. Proposals by MTA to increase pension payments and health costs by newly hired workers were rejected by the union, and negotiations are continuing.
© 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-AgenturCOMMENT
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