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Transit Workers Turn Out in Force To Press Demands for New Contract

By SARAH DORSEY
Posted 11/4/13

Thousands of transit workers chanting “no contract, no peace” gathered outside the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s headquarters at 2 Broadway Oct. 29 to kick off Transport Workers Union Local 100’s contract campaign on the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy.

The union’s 34,000 members last received a raise in 2011, and have been working under an expired contract since Jan. 15, 2012, when both sides agreed to bargain past the deadline.

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