Two weeks ago, a Transport Workers Union (TWU) flier promised “Transit Wide Protests” against the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for next week’s Oct. 14 “day of outrage.”
That poster seems to have disappeared in favor of an updated version that has lost the “Transit Wide Protest” threat language.
Any TWU job action — even if it’s not an explicit strike — can cost a TWU member two days’ pay if a judge deems that action illegal.
Neither the TWU as an institution nor any of its representatives is allowed to suggest illegal action, so maybe the union has decided that the less said about anything, the better.
The two posters are below the jump.
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