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Members of a powerful dissident faction in the transit union rallied yesterday against a proposed contract that would avert, for now, a bus and subway strike, and called on workers to reject the deal. As a result, the prospect for ratification of the contract by the 33,000 members of Transport Worke...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author This story was reported by Michael Arena, Patricia Hurtado, Dan Morrison, Robert Polner, Graham Rayman, Liz Willen and William Murphy. It was written by Murphy
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 16.12.1999
EditionCombined editions
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Giuliani, Rudolph W
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Summary:Members of a powerful dissident faction in the transit union rallied yesterday against a proposed contract that would avert, for now, a bus and subway strike, and called on workers to reject the deal. As a result, the prospect for ratification of the contract by the 33,000 members of Transport Workers Union Local 100 remains uncertain, and it was expected to take several weeks to conduct a vote by mail. "We're going to vote down this rotten contract," bus driver and New Directions organizer J.P. Pacafio declared before a crowd of workers outside transit headquarters in downtown Brooklyn. The leader of New Directions, subway motorman Tim Schermerhorn, said the tentative contract did not address problems with the worker grievance procedure or other issues.