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Article: The Buses Roll Again in Los Angeles; Riders Rejoice as Month-Long Strike Ends, but Road Ahead Is Rocky
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- The Washington Post
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- October 19, 2000
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On countless corners here this morning, poor residents who have
spent an exhausting, dire month struggling to find some way to get to
their jobs saw welcome relief roll up.
The buses came back, at last.
A strike that had shut down the nation's second-largest public
transit system and left 450,000 people in Los Angeles County stranded
ended Tuesday night when drivers agreed to return to work. Four days
of tense, round-the-clock negotiations brokered by the Rev. Jesse L.
Jackson produced a new contract that weary Metropolitan Transit
Authority officials and union leaders both accepted.
The 32-day walkout that drivers staged for better wages had
inflicted serious hardships across the county, ...