More - Roger Toussaint Quotes

Tonight the executive board voted to begin a series of strikes first out on some of the private bus lines and then extending onto MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) properties.

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I'll go in. Jail is not a problem.

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What they'd be saving on pensions is a pittance.

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These comments don't sound like the Chairman Kalikow I know. We can only conclude that this is from the governor of New York to the people of New York City from his fund-raiser in New Hampshire.

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We did not want a strike, but apparently the MTA, the governor and mayor did.

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I will do 30 years before transit workers surrender. Working people have tried to obey the law, and we have gotten nothing but insults for it.

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 Law

The latest proposal is a very bad proposal and it remains to be seen how serious they are about this or whether they are trying to intimidate our members.

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This is a fight over whether hard work will be rewarded with a decent retirement.

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 Hard Work

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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 Hard Work

That explains why he has been muscling and intervening in these negotiations all along, why the chairman has been taking instructions from the mayor. There's an agenda at stake here.

Roger Toussaint