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The workers' rejection of the settlement shows that they are angry enough to take part in an illegal three-day strike and face fines, and angry enough to embarrass their union's president, Roger Toussaint, by shooting down a settlement he had signed. Mr. Toussaint blamed others for the outcome. 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. The authority certainly does not want a renegotiated settlement to cost more than the rejected one, while Mr. Toussaint might not want a more generous settlement because it might make him look weak as if he had negotiated too stingy a deal the first time around. The workers' rejection of the settlement shows that they were angry enough to take part in an illegal three-day strike and face fines. They were angry enough to embarrass their union's president, Roger Toussaint, by shooting down a settlement he had signed. Mr. Toussaint though blamed others for the outcome and said that this result is a byproduct of a number of negative and inappropriate interferences. The authority certainly does not want a renegotiated settlement to cost more than the rejected one, while Mr. Toussaint might not want a more generous settlement because it might make him look weak.