Roger Toussaint Transit Quotations

I will do 30 years before transit workers surrender. Working people have tried to obey the law, and we have gotten nothing but insults for it.

My message is let transit workers decide and determine their own fate. Don't get involved in the business and affairs of our union. If you make a deal, stick to it.

The contract they offered would leave the next generation of transit workers behind, and we will not accept that. We have voted to begin a series of strikes that will start with private bus lines and then spread to MTA properties.

Transit workers are tired of being underappreciated and disrespected.

This is a fight over dignity and respect on the job, a concept that is very alien to the MTA. Transit workers are tired of being underappreciated and disrespected.

That is an insult to transit workers and an insult to every person in this city who depends on our bus and subway system.

I'm pleased to announce that the local 100 executive board just voted overwhelmingly to direct transit workers to return to work immediately and to resume bus and subway service throughout the five boroughs in New York City.

If Gov. Pataki wants to play a constructive role he should get involved in these negotiations, and he should restore money to mass transit because ... the state government has taken out funds from mass transit ... (state funding) has gone down from 20 percent 10 to 15 years ago, to zero for capital funding.

The hearts and minds of New York's transit workers are with Matthew and the entire Long family; we are praying for his recovery.