NEW YORK TRANSIT STRIKE ASSIGNMENT 1) What happened in 1999 and 2002 in contract negotiations that impacted those

in 2005? What were the union members positions on those contract agreements? 2) What importance did the election win in 2000 by former TWU President Roger Touissant have for the union? What implications did it have in 2005? 3) Why were union members unhappy with their prior contract from 2002? 4) What was the status of the MTA budget in 2005? Was it in the red or in the black? 5) What contract change did MTA management ask to make to the workers contract in 2005? Why did they ask for it? How did the MTA management change their demands in negotiations? 6) Why TWU Local 100 and its president oppose this change in 2005 to their contract? What did TWU President Roger Touissant see this change as givebacks? What were the workers concerns with givebacks? 7) Once the strike was authorized, what issues did union members have with reasons that union leadership decided to strike? Why were most members unhappy and why did they feel disrespected? 8) What challenges did TWU Local 100 face after they went on strike? How prepared was the TWU Local 100 for the strike and the challenges that they would face? 9) When strike finally ended what did TWU agree to? 10) How did the workers receive the terms of contract that the TWU leadership had agreed to? What was the main issue for them? 11) What happened when the workers voted to approve the agreed upon contract?