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Two Men Face Off, With Millions In The Balance

Posted by: David Gest

29 December 2005 - 5:00am

The New York Observer profiles MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow and Transit Worker's Union chief Roger Touissant.

Kalikow, a former developer, and Touissant, "a seasoned intellectual and political radical, formed in the Caribbean in the tumultuous 1970's", matched wits in negotiating the recent transit strike. "To a degree greater than labor conflicts of the recent past, the Transit Strike of 2005...grew not out of a clash of macroeconomic forces, but rather out of the mix-up of two men's visions and characters, of the fiscal caution and deal-making confidence characteristic of the city's elite on the one hand, and of an ideological militancy rooted in a revolutionary West Indian past on the other."

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Source: The New York Observer, December 28, 2005
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