Two Men Face Off, With Millions In The Balance

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

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December 29, 2005, 5:00 AM PST

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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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 in The New York Observer

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