Updated 01/16/2012 10:59 PM
MTA Proposes Five-Year Deal To Transit Workers' Union
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority made on Monday an offer to a transit union that was without a contract, hours after their previous deal expired.
The union says MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota proposed a five-year deal that includes a wage freeze for the first three years or a wage increase if it is offset by work rule changes.
The last two years of the contract are being offered at 2-percent increases.
The Transport Workers Union Local 100 says that is not a fair wage and is asking for cost-of-living wage increases for each of the five years.
Lhota is following the pattern set by the governor in the deals he struck with two other state unions.
The 35,000-member union has not threatened to strike like it did in 2005, when it brought the city's mass transit to a halt.
The negotiations were still ongoing late Monday.