The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's vow to withhold a $500,000 death benefit negotiated with Transport Workers Union Local 100 several months before the coronavirus pandemic began wreaking havoc here in March 2020 from the families of employees who refused to get vaccinated and then die of the virus is encountering strong opposition from the union.
Its website states it "negotiated a significant extension of our precedent-setting COVID-19 death benefit. The original agreement with the MTA, providing $500,000 payments to the families of members who contracted the virus and died, expired April 13."
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