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ASSOCIATED PRESS   "A judge derailed the increasingly cash-starved transit union's attempt to restore automatic dues collection, suggesting that each of the 48 executive-board members must first promise not to strike again.

"The union has lost millions of dollars since June, when the revenue flow was shut as punishment for its city-crippling strike in 2005.

"Transport Workers Union Local 100 chief Roger Toussaint had told State Supreme Court Justice Bruce Balter of Brooklyn in an affidavit that the union "does not assert the right to strike," and Thursday said he'd appeal the ruling.

"The city wanted the union's executive board, not just Toussaint, to promise that it won't call another strike. In a statement, the city said the ruling echoes its concerns that the union might strike again. The MTA, the plaintiff in the case against TWU, wanted the judge to restore automatic dues collection on a probationary basis and revoke it if the union threatens another walkout."

****roger toussaint and his henchman are thugs straight out of a 1950's labor union movie where they destroy the owner's property and beat up workers who do not want to strike....not to miss the historical connection between the mob and unions which has existed in the united states.  roger just couldn't bring himself to promise not to strike.  he will do it again and he will screw the city, especially the elderly who need public transportation, when he calls his next strike.  the deal is his union is not allowed to strike by law, yet roger is a liar and a cheat.  the law doesn't apply to his union, he thinks.  by the way, thanks to roger, bus drivers have never been ruder than they are now.  hey roger, take a ride on the third avenue bus in manhattan and watch the stops that get missed.  hey roger, watch how long it takes for the drivers to switch on this route just a block a way from their terminal where the buses idle all day.

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