April 11, 2006
Transit Union Leader Sentenced to 10 Days in Jail Over Strike By THOMAS J. LUECK<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/thomas_j_lueck/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
Roger Toussaint, the president of the transit workers' union who led bus and subway workers in a strike that crippled New York City for three cold days in December, was sentenced yesterday in a surprise ruling to 10 days in jail.
Justice Theodore T. Jones of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, who presided in December over hearings on the strike by Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union, announced the sentence after lawyers for Mr. Toussaint and two of his colleagues said they would not contest charges that they had been in contempt of court during the strike.
Mr. Toussaint was also fined $1,000. Ed Watt, the union's secretary-treasurer, and Darlyne Lawson, its recording secretary, were each fined $500, but were not sentenced to jail.
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