Roger Toussaint

Elena Kagan and Family: Best of the Upper Left Side, with a Pro-Union Brother

​It's about time that a child of Manhattan's Upper Left Side was nominated for the Supreme Court. There is no better school for debate than the corridors of upper Broadway and the aisles of Zabar's, where the opinions are stronger than the garlic bagels. Obama nominee Elena Kagan, 50, has imp ... More >>

Insurgent John Samuelsen Beats Toussaint Loyalist in Bitter TWU Election

​When Roger Toussaint, President of Transit Workers Union Local 100 during the 2005 subway strike, left his duties in February to work for the international TWU, he handed them off to Curtis Tate, vice president for the Rapid Transit Operations Division. Toussaint backed Tate for election to ... More >>

Stop the Presses: A Murdoch Apology

Not that he needs any help from us spreading the word, but anyone who long ago foreswore the New York Post at a newsstand or in cyberspace because of its many outrages, might be interested to take a gander at Rupert Murdoch's apology in today's paper for last week's wretched monkey cartoon:"Last wee ... More >>

MTA Hearings, Like Subway, Overcrowded with Long Delays

Nearly 100 people remained outside the Metropolitan Transportation Authority fare hike hearing in Manhattan almost an hour after it began on Wednesday evening, their wait caused by stepped-up security measures and what appeared to be the authority's failure to anticipate the crowd. "We've recentl ... More >>

Peace March: Cindy & Jesse Do Broadway

Issues: Antiwar Tent Gets Crowded

Cyclist Hurt? Blame the Transit Strike

A Day Without White People

On May Day, the masses rose up in New York. But where were the white peaceniks?

'This Is the Time to Rise'

Immigrants march, plan May 1 strike

Malice's Restaurant

What Rao's and a gangster-run school bus drivers' union have in common

Progressives Use Frustration as Fuel for Action

Toussaint's Transit Trauma

Union big walked a tightrope between enemies abroad and at home

The Fonz's Pitch

Open door policy

NYC Transit Workers Reject Contract

Calling Toussaint a 'Dumb Coconut'

Remember the Strike? Someone Won

Transit Union Strikes a Deal

Letters

Welcome Back, "Terrorists" and "Thugs"

Back to Work? On the Brink Again

A Union Town Loses Patience With the Strike

Remember the Stadium? Unions do

Socialists, Scabs, and the "Union Soul"

Strikebound

Transit Union's Family Spat

WWRTD: Or, What Would Roger Toussaint Do?

Mr. Toussaint, how will you purchase your Christmas ham?

Mayor Mouth

Tabloid Bloomy Goes Thuggy, Trades Big Schtick for Big Stick

Fault Line

Deal or no deal, transit workers want more respect, less punishment

Transit Talks: Death Un-Benefit

Transit: Wage Rage

Tick Tock Transit

Transit Breaks

Labor Pain

A Strike -- Partially

Transit bump in the road

Transit Countdown

Transit Showdown

Games the Bush Regime Should Not See

Labor Bigs Hit NYU

Helping Bloomberg?

Fulani aide sues union

Getting Better All the Time

Inside New York's Quiet Success Stories

Taken for a Ride

Transit Union Leaders Find an Old Real Estate Deal Smells

Transit Hurrah

The People Who Stood Up to the MTA Bullies

Harlemites March

Anti-War Rally Eyes Troubles at Home

The Double Standard

While Unions Are Scrutinized, MTA Bigs Get Free Ride

The 2002 Wacko Awards

Toussaint's Transit Express

All It Took Was a Little Respect

Letters

Letters

Underground Rumblings

A Modern Militant Vies to Revive the Transit Union