Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city must pay for the transit strike...
...streets. At one point, police in Manhattan narrowly averted a "grid lock," the ultimate traffic jam, in which no motor vehicle can move in any direction. An angry bicyclist bit a policeman; an upset motorist tried to run down a policewoman. It was the ninth day of the transit strike, and the élan that New Yorkers had shown in the first week of the walkout had washed away...
...sour mood was shared by the 33,000 striking transit workers. A judge fined them $1 million and, under the state's Taylor Law, they were being docked two days' pay for each day that they stayed out. This meant that the workers had lost about half the raises that they could hope to get in the first year of a new contract. The pressure was on union leaders to settle the dispute, and on Friday it ended, at least temporarily. Union Leader John Lawe ordered his members back to work. In the meantime, the workers, who earn...
...million each day. The walkout cost the city about $3 million a day in lost sales taxes and other revenue, as well as overtime pay for police and firemen. Some of that loss, however, will be offset by the daily savings of $2 million from not operating the transit system and by the Taylor Law penalties...
...suburban train stations. It was merely inconvenient for those insulated by corporate life to get up at 6 a.m. and fall into the provided cab. It was actually a lark for the physical-fitness buffs, who could test their independence. But for many of the poor and infirm, the transit strike was a disaster...