The union asserted that the authority's proposal would reduce workers' take-home pay by 2.3percentt by requiring them to divert that percentage toward pension contributions.
The Commissary acknowledged that he had no specific permission to build the bakeries but asserted that the authority "belonged to the officers commanding the troops who were placed in the building".
The M.T.A.'s chief negotiator, Gary Dellaverson, asserted that the authority's insistence on a wage freeze and concessions had nothing to do with a lack of respect but was caused by the authority's deficit of more than $2 billion.
Spokeswoman Lisa Marie Alley asserted that the authority is not facing opposition.
Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein, who voted against the proposal, asserted that the agency lacked the authority to rule as it had.
The revised complaint (see below) continues to assert that the authority "constitutes an exercise of Congress's power under the Bankruptcy Clause".
Despite Mr. Kessel's denials, Mr. Sabatino continued to assert that the authority had been collecting more than $135 million annually through an undisclosed 5.1percentt rate surcharge.
Four days before the transportation authority board voted on the contract, City Comptroller John C. Liu sent a letter to the authority's chairman, Jay H. Walder, asserting that the authority needed to use extra care in selecting a contractor for its radio system upgrade.
Mr. Stephens asserted that the Swedish authorities had said that "they will defer their interest in him to the Americans," and that a grand jury had been impaneled in Alexandria, Va., that was currently hearing evidence of Mr. Assange's role in exposing the diplomatic cables.
Mr. Warin was first alerted to the problem by "The Lost Museum," a book by an American journalist, Hector Feliciano, that asserted that the French authorities had been less than diligent in finding the true owners of looted works recovered after the Allied victory.
