Article: Judge Grants Injunction in Transit Case

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Dateline: NEW YORK [image omitted]

A judge on Friday barred city transit workers from carrying out a threatened strike that would paralyze the city's mass transit system and strand 7 million daily riders.

City and state officials had asked for the preliminary injunction, though union lawyer Arthur Schwartz had insisted it was premature because the union had not actually called a strike.

Justice Jules Spodek ruled a state law clearly bans strikes by public employees and said a walkout by the 34,000-member transit union would be "enormous, debilitating and destructive."

The ruling was issued as the ...

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