| 1 | 207th St. Overhaul Shop, looking north. | 4 |
| 2 | Local 100 Branches and Divisions, 1959. | 44 |
| 3 | Local 100 Departments (white boxes) and Divisions (grey boxes), mid 1970s. | 46 |
| 4 | “We Demand 30%” Button, 1980. | 72 |
| 5 | The McDonald Slate Platform, 1979. | 84 |
| 6 | Strike Bulletin 2 indicates support for union leadership. | 95 |
| 7 | Ronald “Bullwhip” Davis brandishing his whip for New York Post reporter and photographer, June 5, 1984. | 110 |
| 8 | 207th St. Overhaul Shop Union Committee with a shop steward and a worker being congratulated on his retirement. Walter Humphrey is third from right. | 113 |
| 9 | “A Generation of Givebacks,” New Directions leaflet. | 125 |
| 10 | “CTA s [Cleaners]: An Endangered Title,” New Directions leaflet. | 129 |
| 11 | “It’s Eight Tongs [Sixteen Men] to a 39-Foot Rail,” Track Division leaflet, approx. 1985. | 153 |
| 12 | 1997 “Top Three” New Directions Candidates: Tim Schermerhorn, President (l); Naomi Allen, Secretary-Treasurer (c); Roger Toussaint, Recording Secretary (r). | 198 |
| 13 | Steve Downs at Manhattan Center, 1999, with the torn-up injunction on the floor. | 206 |
| 14 | Contract Negotiation Flow-Chart, per Local 100 By-laws. | 278 |
| 15 | Hundreds of bus operators and mechanics march through Times Square on the way to join a Local 100 rally outside MTA headquarters, October 30, 2002. | 292 |
| 16 | Responding to the deaths of two workers, the union announced a safety slowdown. | 295 |
| 17 | Local 100 Express, July 2003 explains the new safety provisions to members. | 297 |
| 18 | Final money items. After Toussaint’s meeting with Kalikow and Dellaverson in the early morning of December 16, 2002, he told me the agreed-upon terms, and I scribbled them down on a notepad. | 309 |
| 19 | Announcing a deal, Toussaint and MTA Chair Kalikow embrace for the cameras, December 16, 2002. A New York Post picture shows them smiling next to each other. | 324 |
| 20 | Rather than make demands, the union’s first 2005 contract bulletin emphasized what might be lost. | 355 |
| 21 | The December 2006 leaflet announcing the arbitrator’s award urged workers to “Get Ready for 2008. | 390 |
| 22 | Local 100 Express, February 2009. Know Your Union? The right-hand side of the page identifies appointed staff (only eight were transit workers) rather than elected division officers. On the left, note that Local 100 has two presidents. Four of the eight VP s had been appointed by the Executive Board, not elected. The opposition slate protested, unsuccessfully, that this feature, published four months before the election, constituted illegal use of union resources for campaign purposes. | 394 |
| 23 | Direct Taxes, by year, shows disproportionate payments in 2007–09, as the Local paid taxes on unprotected capital gains. | 402 |
| 24 | Dues Receipts and Net Assets, by year shows the effect of the loss of dues check-off for part of 2007 and almost all of 2008. | 404 |
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