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TWU Head Sentenced to 10-Day Prison Term Over Transit Strike

HeadlineApr 11, 2006

And Roger Toussaint, the president of New York city’s Transport Workers Union, has been sentenced to 10 days in jail for authorizing December’s three-day transit strike. Union officials had requested a sentencing of community service. Toussaint must surrender himself to authorities within 30 days.

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