New York strike

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Tube and bus workers in New York shut down the city’s transit system in a strike that lasted 60 hours in the run-up to Christmas. The action was in response to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s plan to attack pension rights. The MTA wants to either raise the retirement age, or to make new staff pay 6% pension contributions instead of the current 2%.

Over 30,000 Subway and bus workers were not having that, and walked out for 2½ days, returning to work on 22 December. There will now be talks between management and the union, and workers are standing by for more action should these talks fail.

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