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Deal Approved Ending NYC Transit Walkout
Talks Continue, But Unior Leaders Vote to Send 33,000 Members Back to Work Without a New Contract
Associated Press Writer
Members of a Transport Workers Union picket line gather to announce the end of the transit strike Thursday Dec. 22, 2005, in New YorK. The city's crippling three-day transit strike ended Thursday when union leaders voted to send their 33,000 members back to work without a new contract.
AP Photo/Frank Franklin II
Roger Toussaint, the combative president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, reacts as he holds a sidewalk news conference Thursday, Dec. 22, 2005, in New York. The city's crippling three-day mass transit strike ended Thursday after union leaders, facing mounting fines, possible jail terms and the wrath of millions of commuters, voted to return their 33,000 members to work without a new contract.
AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
Trains line the Casey Stengel Depot in the Queens borough of New York Thursday Dec. 22, 2005.
AP Photo/Frank Franklin II
Transport Workers Union: http://www.twulocal100.org
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