Strike - USA - Holiday transit strike hits New York, union fined
NEW YORK,NY,USA -Reuters, by Claudia Parsons & Ellen Wulfhorst -21 Dec 2005: -- New York's subways and buses were brought to a halt on Tuesday by the city's first mass transit strike in 25 years by a union that faces a $1 million-a-day fine for every day of the work stoppage... New Yorkers struggled to get to jobs and school on foot, by bike and in cars shared with strangers once the Transport Workers Union walked off the job at the height of the holiday shopping and tourism season... Drivers desperate to fill their cars picked up strangers to get in, while cyclists streamed over the city's bridges... Many Wall Street firms provided shuttle buses to carry employees and financial markets operated as normal... For Joy Bennett, a Jamaican immigrant living in the Bronx, the strike provided her first opportunity to see Manhattan from above ground as she normally commutes underground on the subway. "This is beautiful," she said, walking through Times Square before dawn. "I like it up here"...
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