NYC Transit Workers Picket Pataki At Press Club

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

A group of angry New York City transit workers descended on the National Press Club today protesting the appearance of Governor George Pataki. With banners reading “Pakati couldn’t make it in New York – he can’t make it anywhere” and “Bad governors make bad presidents”, the transit workers plan picketed and leafleted outside the National Press Club, where Pataki unveiled his energy program. New York’s transit workers have been without a contract since December, when a tentative agreement that ended the New York transit strike was torpedoed, workers say, at Governor Pataki’s