MARKETPLACE MORNING REPORT (Minnesota Public Radio), January 30, 2006, Monday

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MARKETPLACE MORNING REPORT

SHOW: Marketplace Morning Report 6:50 AM EST SYND

January 30, 2006 Monday

HEADLINE: Rumblings of another transit strike in New York City

ANCHORS: SCOTT JAGOW

REPORTERS: ALISA ROTH

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SCOTT JAGOW, anchor:
In New York City today, there are rumblings about another transit strike. Now the union says that's very unlikely. The 22,000 workers voted on a new contract last week and it lost by seven votes. As MARKETPLACE's Alisa Roth reports, dissident workers have threatened to walk off the job again.
ALISA ROTH reporting:
For New Yorkers, the great transit strike of 2005 is little more than a sad, cold memory. But more than a month after disgruntled transit workers went back on the job, all is not well on New York's streets. Transit workers have rejected two contract offers, and now the Transit Authority, or MTA, is pushing for binding arbitration, something the union refuses to accept.
So how's New York going to get things back on track? Richard Hurd is a professor of labor studies at Cornell.
Professor RICHARD HURD: A very likely outcome is that there will be some minor tweaking of the final contract agreement or that there's some guarantee that some of the conditions of the original agreement will be implemented.
ROTH: Those conditions could include using MTA's budget surplus to pay off fines incurred during the illegal strike. In New York, I'm Alisa Roth for MARKETPLACE.