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Re: The IRT pre-unification |
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Posted by qveensboro_plaza on Tue Oct 27 13:28:59 2020, in response to Re: The IRT pre-unification, posted by jailhousedoc on Tue Oct 27 11:23:09 2020. Sad to say, there was a lot of racism within the IRT, and it lasted a very long time. Minorities moved in large numbers into the better paying jobs like motorman and conductor only after the 1966 transit strike.The contract that resulted from the strike had such generous pension provisions that a huge number of the old 'Hibernians' (my father's name for his native Irish co-workers) retired en masse. Within a couple of years my father's seniority went from being in the 300s to 30. With such a large number of job openings, they could no longer exclude minorities. And the passage of the Civil Rights Act put teeth in the anti-discrimination laws. |
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