By Staff 5/02/06 9:10am

Tuesday: Toussaint, Hot 97, and a Soprano

  • Having just completed his truncated jail sentence, Roger Toussaint is fired up once again. The Transport Workers Union is suing the MTA for not accepting the contract the two feuding sides worked out after the strike. Well, it should be noted that the TWU had voted against this contract, before voting for it. Peter Read More

    • By Staff 4/28/06 10:03am

    Messinger Arrested?

    If all goes according to plan, Ruth Messinger will be cuffed and booked in a matter of minutes in front of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington for protesting genocide in Darfur. Unlike Roger Toussaint’s anticlimactic march to the pen, it’s hard to find fault today with Messinger, President of the American Jewish World Service, co-founder Read More

    By Staff 4/18/06 5:28pm

    Toussaint talks …

    It has been a big day in MTA-world. First the Transit Workers Union Local voted to approve the contract they nixed in a January vote — though it is not clear whether the MTA will accept the re-vote. And now we find out that transit union leader Roger Toussaint will be Read More

    By Staff, Staff 3/27/06 12:00am

    Editorials

    Mike Wallace: A Class Act

    When CBS debuted Sixty Minutes on Sept. 24, 1968, one of the co-hosts was Mike Wallace. Last week, he announced that he would retire from the show this spring, in deference to his 88 years and a remarkable career that shows no signs of flagging. Broadcast journalism is literally impossible Read More

    By Staff 2/15/06 5:48pm

    Wednesday Blog Stroll

    Today’s stroll kicks up a lot of posts on Mike’s recent win in the Court of Appeals–the subject over at Gothamist.

    Gothamist also links to a Intelligencer clip from New York Magazine about Jonathan Tisch as the next billionaire mayoral candidate.

    Freshman council member Darlene Read More

    By Staff, Staff 1/30/06 12:00am

    Editorials

    Transit Union’s Toussaint:
    Time to Go

    Now that members of the Transit Workers Union have foolishly rejected the contract settlement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, two things become clear: First, the M.T.A. should act swiftly and ask the state’s Public Employment Relations Board to impose binding arbitration and end this charade. And second, Read More

    By Matthew Schuerman 12/26/05 12:00am

    Sic Transit Duo: Two Guys Caught On A Third Rail

    After digging himself out of financial difficulties in the 1990’s, Peter Kalikow thought there was more to life than money. This month, when he sat down at the negotiating table across from Roger Toussaint, the chief of the Transit Workers Union, he found out that he was right.

    Mr. Kalikow, a lean, third-generation real-estate developer Read More

    By Staff 12/26/05 12:00am

    Arrogant Toussaint: Strike Breaks Law While City Schleps

    The Transit Workers Union, consisting of some 34,000 or so lawbreakers and led by an arrogant boss named Roger Toussaint, apparently believes the riding public will sympathize with its ludicrous demands.

    As usual, the union bosses and their sheep-like members have it exactly wrong. This illegal strike will stir no feelings of brotherhood or solidarity Read More

    By Matthew Schuerman 12/26/05 12:00am

    Sic Transit Duo: Two Guys Caught On A Third Rail

    After digging himself out of financial difficulties in the 1990’s, Peter Kalikow thought there was more to life than money. This month, when he sat down at the negotiating table across from Roger Toussaint, the chief of the Transit Workers Union, he found out that he was right.

    Mr. Kalikow, a lean, third-generation real-estate developer Read More