Ah, Pat, I think it would be a good idea to stop speculating here about areas that are unrelated to Telecom and about which you know nothing. New York is not Illinois, the relationship between NYC and NYS is not the same as that between Chicago and Illinois, and NYC most definitely does not control the MTA.
Well, actually, the last strike was in 1980, but why should we let facts get in our way? In the 1960s strike, union leader Mike Quill had heart failure and was negotiating from his hospital bed by waving fingers. That kind of slowed things down.
R's,
John
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Please forgive my typo. On the one hand I said 'twenty-five years ago' which would be 1980 _which is what I meant_ and on the other hand a reference to '1960s'. Please go by what I meant, not what slipped out in the typing. PAT]