The MTA has NOT taken pensions off the table, in violation of the state's Taylor Law (the law referred to four paragraphs up), but is under no sanction for proposing it. They have, however, agreed that they'd consider additional changes in the health insurance components in exchange for dropping that bit of unethical nonsense.
Which, I suspect, is what they were after in the first place.
So basically, the MTA wins, and everyone, even Mayor Bloomberg, lost
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