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...strike was the result of a lack of communication, a breakdown of the collective bargaining process. Until this year this method of negotiation between the Transit Authority and the TWU had never really been used. In the past, New York's Democratic mayors had made behind-the-scenes deals with Michael J. Quill, president and founder of the TWU. Though settlement was reached before the deadline, Quill was permitted to continue with his strike threats up to the last minute so that the city could justify wage increases under the pretense of saving the city from a walkout...
Collective bargaining this year failed because of Quill's lack of co-operation and because of the Transit Authority's poor bargaining position...
...previous years negotiations between the New York City Transit Authority and the Transport Workers Union have been deadlocked to the final hour. But Mayor Wagner, working closely with his city mediator, Theodore W. Kheel, and the president of the TWU, Michael J. Quill, was able to find a last minute solution...
Even disregarding the other factors that clouded the negotiations, the city was still in a bad bargaining position. Because of the T.A.'s lack of money due to its present deficit and Lindsay's campaign promise to maintain the 15 cent fare, the Transit Authority didn't think they could obtain the resources necessary to support an increase that the Union would have accepted before the strike deadline...
Under the new law, the state is empowered to buy the transit yards--across from Kirkland and Eliot Houses--and give as many as 11 of the 12 acres of land to the federal government, which will run the library...