For what it may be worth, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said the MTA should honor the union-ratified contract.
“The City of New York has gone too long without a contract between the MTA and the TWU. Now that the transit workers have voted in support of the contract offer, we cannot to let this opportunity pass. That's why I am calling on the MTA to join with the workers, accept the contact and focus on what all New Yorkers want them to do: provide safe, clean, timely public transportation services," she said.
Part of the public pressure plan of the union, I guess.
-- Chuck Bennett
