The head of the MTA’s largest union — currently locked in bitter contract negotiations with the transit agency — refused yesterday to rule out the possibility of a crippling subway strike.
John Samuelsen, the head of Transport Workers Union Local 100, said he wasn’t planning for his 34,000 members to walk off the job as they did in 2005 — at least not yet.
“We would never take a strike off the table, never,” said Samuelsen after an Albany press conference that demanding the MTA provide a “fair” contract to workers.
“We don’t want a strike . . . but philosophically, we believe we have the right to strike.”