The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority refused today to consider a ratification vote that the city's transit workers' union took last week on a long-stalled contract. Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union had voted in favor of the contract a week ago, three months after members narrowly rejected the same deal in a surprising rebuke to the unions' president, Roger Toussaint.
See "M.T.A. Board Refuses to Vote on Transit Contract", Thomas J. Lueck, The New York Times, April 25, 2006