After a boisterous send-off complete with speeches, cheering crowds and a march across the Brooklyn Bridge, transit union boss Roger Toussaint began serving a 10-day jail sentence. Supporters started an overnight vigil in his honor. Toussaint surrendered Monday to start his sentence for leading last year's three-day transit strike that paralyzed the city during the Christmas shopping rush and violated a state law banning strikes by public employees.
See "Vigil Held for NYC Transit Union Chief", Elizabeth LeSure, San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 2006