The tentative Transport Workers Union Local 100 contract may have gotten done after months of angry rhetoric and stop-and-start negotiations because two respected professionals came to the bargaining table while a less-helpful voice was tuned out.
That static came from Larry Schwartz, Governor Cuomo’s enforcer at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board. It was his scattershot criticism last spring of overtime abuses—quickly echoed by the Governor—that ignited much of the acrimony.
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