With three days to go before a threatened transit shutdown, the Bloomberg administration stepped into the middle of the fray yesterday, asking a judge to fine the transit workers' union $1 million and each striker $25,000 on the first day of a strike and to double the fines successively each day after that. The city's suit is identical to one it filed three years ago during similar transit negotiations.
See "City Seeks Stiff Fines for Workers And Transit Union if They Strike", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, December 13, 2005