#subway strike

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These Brooklynites use a motor scooter for their transportation to work as a strike of subway employees continued into the second day, December 10, 1957. From left: Ronnie Harron, George Nicholson, Peter Garland, and John Avildsen (yes, the future film director). Instead of pushing into whatever subway trains were still running, the quartet squeezed onto the scooter for their above-ground ride.

Photo: Associated Press via News19

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FIFA Stays Silent On Brazil Subway Strike Days Before Start Of World Cup

"We can't speculate about the strike situation. Second it's up to the local transport authorities to make the necessary arrangements for transport in the city," a FIFA spokesman said. View this image " Victor Moriyama / Getty Images A subway strike in São Paulo, Brazil, could hamper the Read more at http://headacheshelp.com/awesome/fifa-stays-silent-on-brazil-subway-strike-days-before-start-of-world-cup/

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I Survived The 1980 New York Transit Strike Pin.

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Subway Strike Hobbles London, Underground and Above

By Stephen Castle, NY Times, Feb. 5, 2014

LONDON--A strike on the London Underground crippled much of the city’s transportation network on Wednesday, disrupting the plans of millions of travelers and forcing commuters to cram into overcrowded buses and trains or walk or cycle to work.

The 48-hour strike, which began Tuesday evening, was called by two unions to protest plans to cut about 950 jobs and close all ticket offices as part of a restructuring that the London transportation authority says could save around 50 million pounds, or about $81 million, a year.

The strike shut down several parts of the system, which normally has three and a half million subway rides each day. The lines that remained open were operating on a reduced schedule.

Despite promises of extra bus service, long, snaking lines built up on Wednesday at stops. Many people faced long walks to work unless they could pounce on one of the city’s shared bicycles.

There was frustration, too, for drivers. “Traffic congestion was far more intense and went on much longer than normal,” said Chris Lambert, a traffic analyst at Inrix, a company that monitors traffic flows. An 11-mile traffic jam on one of the main arteries into the west of the city did not clear until around noon, Mr. Lambert said.

At the Old Bailey, London’s criminal court, a judge commended jurors who appeared despite the disruption, thanking them for showing the “Dunkirk spirit,” a reference to the evacuation of British and some Allied forces from France in 1940 during World War II.

Transport for London, the city’s transportation authority, described the strike as “completely unnecessary” and said it was running at 35 percent of normal Underground service, with eight of 11 lines and 70 percent of stations operating.

In Parliament, Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the disruption. “There is absolutely no justification for a strike,” he said. “We need a modernized Tube line working for the millions of Londoners who use it every day.”

But politically, Mr. Cameron may gain from the strike if angry travelers blame the trade unions, which have close links to the opposition Labour Party. According to British news reports, Mr. Cameron is considering changes to the law to make it harder to call strikes in some sectors, possibly including transportation.

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Scenes from the 1919 New York city subway strike.

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YES!!! The subway strike is over, finally..

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Subway: emergency meeting at Labour Secretariat in order to lift strike

Subway strike reaches 10th day.

Spokesmen from Metrovías, City government officials, and representatives from the UTA union and subway workers are meeting in order to put an end to the conflict that has left the city of Buenos Aires without any subway service for the last ten days.

In the meeting, workers on strike are introducing a new document containing five labour. 

As subway delegates Néstor Segovia and Enrique Rossito were seen entering the meeting, they assured that the strike “continues and has not been lifted.

Earlier, Segovia, told reporters “there is a light of hope and we could be ending the strike some point today.” 

“There’s hope that negotiations with both Metrovías company and the Buenos Aires City government could be solved within the next few hours

After such statements, Segovia also revealed that “there’s the possibility of calling a truce as workmates have already indicated to agree with doing so in case we obtain some positive responses to our demands.”

Workers claim a 28 percent salary increase as well the improvement of their working conditions

Likewise, the other Subway workers’ breakaway union secretary-general, Roberto Pianelli, assured this morning that as far as the strike is entering its tenth day, Metrovías company refused to accept the minimum requirements they asked, and aimed also to BA City Mayor Macri “He [Macri] may find the conflict extension highly convenient for him.”

During a radio interview, Pianelli repeated that “it would be very simple to resolve the whole issue. It will just take a few minutes, but there’s no intention to provide a solution whatsoever.”

Read the entire article on the Buenos Aires Herald