55 Quotes by Roger Toussaint

We did not want a strike, but apparently the MTA, the governor and mayor did.

We're not talking about a new strike. We're saying that we want a negotiated settlement, not one imposed through arbitration.

The contract they offered would leave the next generation of transit workers behind, and we will not accept that. We have voted to begin a series of strikes that will start with private bus lines and then spread to MTA properties.

The executive board voted to begin a series of strikes, first out on some of the private bus lines and then extending onto MTA properties.

We, of course, will do everything possible to keep it out of binding arbitration.

We paid the price in millions of dollars in fines, 10 times that for our members, and face impending loss of dues check off which is going to hemorrhage the finances of our union. But you cannot take on a fight like this and not get bloodied. We are still here standing before you bloodied but unbowed.

We wake up at 3 and 4 in the morning to move the trains in this town. That's not the behavior of thugs and selfish people.

We will communicate with the MTA the results of this vote and we will reach out to meet with them in the near future.

Transit workers are tired of being underappreciated and disrespected.