MTA transit employees have gone on strike Calling it a "fight for dignity on the job, a concept foreign to the MTA," (TWU) President Roger Toussaint officially declared that its union members are now on strike, extending the job action, and bringing the and of New York City to a halt. Mayor  lashed out at the TWU with his harshest language yet on the strike. "For their own selfish reasons, the TWU has decided that their demands are more important than the law, the City and the people they serve. This is not only an affront to the concept of public service; it is a cowardly attempt by Roger Toussaint and the TWU to bring the City to its knees to create leverage for their own bargaining position." His Honor concluded, "We cannot give the TWU the satisfaction of causing the havoc they desperately seek to create."
MTA transit employees have gone on strike Calling it a "fight for dignity on the job, a concept foreign to the MTA," (TWU) President officially declared that its union members are now on strike, extending the job action, and bringing the and of New York City to a halt. Mayor Bloomberg lashed out at the TWU with his harshest language yet on the strike. "For their own selfish reasons, the TWU has decided that their demands are more important than the law, the City and the people they serve. This is not only an affront to the concept of public service; it is a cowardly attempt by Roger Toussaint and the TWU to bring the City to its knees to create leverage for their own bargaining position." His Honor concluded, "We cannot give the TWU the satisfaction of causing the havoc they desperately seek to create."
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