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After six days of hearings, a state-appointed arbitration panel has come no closer to reaching an agreement between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the transit workers' union to end their bitter and protracted contract dispute, and a resolution to the dispute may not occur until a new governor takes office in January, said experts who have followed the negotiations. The start of the arbitration proceeding had seemed to signify a small step forward in the struggle, which has lasted months, over a new contract for 34,000 subway and bus workers, members of Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union.