New York City's main transit union announced yesterday that its members had overwhelmingly approved the same contract proposal that they narrowly rejected in January, and its leadership demanded that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority now approve the deal. The authority has brushed aside the union's demand, insisting that it had taken the contract terms off the table after the workers stunned the city by voting them down in January.
See "Transit Union Approves Contract That It Rejected Before", Thomas J. Lueck and Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, April 19, 2006