TWU Elections This December

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Beth Fertig
WNYC News | Jul 12, 2010

New York, NY —

It was almost a year ago that Roger Toussaint led the city’s 34,000 transit workers in a 3-day bus and subway strike. Today, members of the Transport Workers Union Local 100 are still without a contract. And Toussaint is in a fiercely-contested and often nasty battle to hold on to his job as union President. WNYC’s Beth Fertig has more.

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