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ATU Blasts MTA for Holding Off On Contract Talks Due to Budget Hole

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 6/15/20

Close to a thousand Amalgamated Transport Union Local 726 members and their supporters converged on the Eltingville Transit Center in Staten Island June 10 to protest the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's decision to hold off on starting contract negotiations.

The stall was particularly vexing because the much larger Transport Workers Union Local 100, whose members do the same work, approved a potential pattern-setting deal last December, a few months before COVID-19 upended the global economy.

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