סטרייק ביים סוף: ווער האט געווינען?
לויט דעם ניו יארק טיימ'ס האלט שוין דער סטרייק ביים קומען צו אן ענדע, ער שרייבט נישט קלאר, אבער עס קוקט אויס ווי די יוניאן גייט זיך ברעכן.
Transit Union and M.T.A. Said to Be Near Final Deal
By SEWELL CHAN
Published: December 27, 2005
The transit workers' union has scheduled a meeting of its executive board for 6 p.m. today at which union leaders are likely to present a final agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for a new three-year contract.
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Approval by the executive board would be a major step toward ending the bitter contract dispute that resulted in a 3-day transit strike last week. The strike was called off on Thursday afternoon, and the union returned to the negotiating table, after state mediators intervened. A settlement would still have to be ratified in a general vote of the union's membership.
The last three-year contract expired at 12:01 a.m. on Dec. 16. In its final offer, presented on Dec. 19, the eve of the strike, the authority proposed wage increases of 3 percent, 4 percent and 3.5 percent over the next three years. It withdrew a proposal to raise the retirement age for full-pension eligibility to 62 for new workers, from 55 for current workers - but demanded that new employees instead pay 6 percent of their earnings toward their pensions, compared with 2 percent for current workers. It was that demand that Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union rejected, leading to the strike.
In announcing a framework to settle the strike, the mediators said on Thursday that the authority had essentially agreed to drop its pension demands in exchange for the union agreeing to have its members pay more toward their health-care costs. Most current workers pay no premiums for the basic health plan.
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