Sentence examples for transit contract from inspiring English sources

This lingering transit contract is symbolic of a wider Faustian pact between advertising and cities.

That it would rush to spend every single dollar of the surplus the day before the transit contract expires is an insult to all 33,000 transit workers.

In the interest of fully chronicling the latest three-day performance of "The Trials and Tribulations of the Transit Contract," here is a highly subjective diary of happenings behind the curtains, in the cheap seats and at the stage door.

A22 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 QueenStrikeke Begins As Talks Stall Workers at two bus companies serving 57,000 riders in Queens went on strike this morning as transit contract talks remained deadlocked and millions of commuters braced for a possible systemwide strike against New York City subways and buses tomorrow.

Titan was created in 2001 and it has worked aggressively to win transit contracts.

Over the decades, Mr. Kheel helped mediate more than a dozen transit contracts and helped end the 12-day transit strike of 1966.

After a two-week dispute that saw gas supplies cutoff to Europe, Ukraine agreed to 10-year gas supply and transit contracts with Russia in January 2009 that brought gas prices to "world" levels.

The city's critics in Washington, D.C., on whom New York is dependent for loans, are not impressed with the mayor's negotiating and fear the transit workers' contract will set an expensive precedent for other municipal unions whose contracts are still under negotiation.

The transit workers' contract expires Dec. 15.

The deal includes annual wage increases of 4percentt, 3.5 percent and 3percentt consecutively over the next three years, which is similar to the transit workers' contract.

Many of the rules about overtime are embedded in the transit workers' contract, so it can be difficult for the authority to change practices without protracted negotiations with the union.