New York transport workers strike
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, organised by the Transit Workers Union (TWU), was in response to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) 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%. Some 33,000 subway and bus workers - 70% Black, Latino, or Asian American - walked out for 212 days, returning to work on 22 December. The strike has won pay increases, a day off for...