NYC Public Transit Strike Update

Mikaela reports:
Democracy Now indicates striking Transport Workers Union were effective in their demands for benefits in New York City. I heard exactly no one in New York talk about this, and the trains and buses certainly were working smoothly! Go labor!

Transit Union Has Won Most Demands: Analysts
This news on New York’s recent public transit labor dispute – the New York Times is reporting analysts widely agree the Transport Workers Union has won most of the goals that led to its three-day strike last week. Under the tentative deal approved by union leadership this week, workers would receive close to an 11% pay raise, maternity leave, improvements in disability and retiree health plans, and the adoption of Martin Luther King's Birthday as a paid holiday.

Steven Malanga, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute, a conservative research organization that has been harshly critical of the union said: "It's a good contract for the union in that it does keep in place, for the most part, benefits that are extremely favorable to them. For them, you can say this is a great deal."