- Title: USA: NEW YORK TRANSPORT ROLLS AGAIN AS STRIKE SETTLEMENT REACHED
- Date: 13th January 1966
- Summary: BUSES AND SUBWAY RESUMING; INTERVIEWS (SOF) WITH MR. JOSEPH O'GRADY, CHAIRMAN OF THE TRANSIT (PUBLIC TRANSPORT) AUTHORITY; DOUGLAS MACMAHON, LEADER OF UNION NEGOTIATORS, AND MR. JAMES HORST, ANOTHER UNION NEGOTIATOR. TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEWER: "DO YOU HAVE ANY HARD FEELINGS AT ALL TOWARDS MR. QUILL, YOUR OPPOSITE NUMBER OF THE UNION? O'GRADY: NO, NONE AT ALL. AS A MATTER OF FACT I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE HIM DOWN ON EVERY TWO YEARS TO SPEND NEW YEARS EVE WITH ME AND HAVE SOME GUSH (SIC) WITH ME AS PEOPLE WOULD SAY IN NEW YORK. INTERVIEWER: AS FAR AS THE FUTURE OF THE UNION IS CONCERNED, MR.MACMAHON, WOULD YOU SAY THAT THIS PRESAGES AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT APPROACH IN THE FUTURE AS FAR AS UNION NEGOTIATING IS CONCERNED? MACMAHON: OF COURSE, NOW WE ARE TALKING IN TERMS OF THE PREVAILING RATE AND WE ARE GOING TO KEEP ON THAT TRACK AND WE ARE GOING TO FINALLY IN THE NEXT BITE GET ALL OF IT. INTERVIEWER: MR. HORST, THIS IS JAMES HORST OF THE UNION, WHEN YOU HAD THAT ROW, AS YOU CROSSED THE STREET FROM CITY HALL YOU SAID. 'NOW IS THE TIME'. DO THINK THAT THE TIME HAS BEEN ARRIVED AT? HORST: I THINK WE HAVE ARRIVED AT THE TIME, AND AS OUR SLOGAN SAID: 'THE BEST IS YET TO COME'. COME NOW AND THE NEXT TWO YEARS WILL EVEN BE BETTER. JUST ONE LAST QUESTION. WHAT WAS MIKE QUILL'S REACTION ON HIS IMPRISONMENT IN THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL WHEN YOU TOLD HIM ABOUT THIS? MACMAHON: WELL, HE CONGRATULATED ALL OF US AND TOLD US TO TELL THE EXECUTIVE BOARD WHICH TOOK THE VOTE THAT IT WAS THE BEST PACKAGE DEAL WE EVER NEGOTIATED." Initials PBS-JT/V/MGT/SGM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 28th January 1966 12:00
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- Location: NEW YORK, USA
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- Country: USA
- Reuters ID: LVA5JHPVDT9YEHPC50YE8R4KWQXC
- Story Text: THE NEW YORK TRANSPORT STRIKE IS OVER. IT ENDED EARLY TODAY (THURSDAY) AND BY MIDDAY THE CITY'S BUSES AND SUBWAY (UNDERGROUND RAIL SYSTEM) WERE ALMOST BACK TO NORMAL. THE STRIKE HAD CRIPPLED NEW YORK FOR 13 DAYS, AND COST HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN LOST BUSINESS.
BOTH SIDES IN THE DISPUTE ACCEPTED A PEACE PLAN UNDER WHICH THE UNION RECEIVES A TWO YEAR PACKAGE DEAL, WITH THE PROMISE OF MORE NEGOTIATIONS THEN. THE PEACE PLAN WILL COST 70-MILLION DOLLARS (GBP25-MILLION STERLING) A YEAR.
WITH THE SETTLEMENT CAME THE ORDER FOR THE RELEASE OF NINE UNION OFFICIALS DETAINED IN PRISON FOR DISOBEYING COURT ORDERS. ONE, THE LEADER OF THE UNION, MR MICHAEL QUILL, IS RECOVERING IN BELLEVUE HOSPITAL FROM A HEART ATTACK HE SUFFERED AFTER HIS ARREST A FEW DAYS AGO.
UNION OFFICIALS HAVE EXPRESSED THEIR SATISFACTION WITH THE NEW TWO YEAR AGREEMENT AND THE IMMEDIATE BENEFITS.
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