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Subway, NYC by zeyez

Dec 19, 2005, 11:25 pm

NY1的网站报道说，MTA的发言人一个多小时前说，工会拒绝了公司的最终方案，已离开谈判地点前往工会的总部。

工会执行委员会现在应该正在对半小时之后是否开始全面罢工进行表决。

Transit Strike Appears Imminent As Union Rejects MTA Offer

December 19, 2005

New York City just got one step closer to a transit strike.

After five days of contract talks between the MTA and the Transport Workers Union, MTA spokesman Tom Kelly announced at 10:58 p.m. that TWU negotiators have rejected the MTA’s final offer and are on their way to the union’s headquarters.

It is expected that the union’s executive board will vote to strike at 12:01 a.m., a move that would strand many of the city’s seven million commuters come Tuesday morning.

An announcement from the TWU is expected following their meeting at the union’s Upper West Side headquarters.

The negotiations broke down after continuing for nearly two hours past the 9 p.m. deadline that the TWU had set for the MTA to present its final offer. Earlier in the evening, TWU officials asked the MTA to present its best offer at 9 p.m. so the TWU executive board could vote on it before midnight.

TWU officials say if a contract agreement can’t be approved by midnight, its 34,000 members will begin walking off the job at 12:01 a.m.

- NY1.com