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Article: Judge Grants Injunction in Transit Case
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- December 14, 2002
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Dateline: NEW YORK
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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 ...