Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority
With the announcement on Friday of the results of the union's ratification vote, the union's stunned leaders and the equally stunned Metropolitan Transportation Authority are not sure where to go from here, not sure how to put the contract back together again. But some union members and labor experts say the contract was lost because he was slow to campaign for it, although his aides say he was hamstrung by an agreement with the transportation authority not to gloat over the deal, which called for raises totaling 10.5 percent over 37 months.  With the announcement of the union's ratification vote results, the union's stunned leaders, as well as Metropolitan Transportation Authority, who are not sure where to go from here or how to put the contract back together again.