In 1980, he led 35,000 transit workers in an 11-day citywide strike that paralyzed subway and bus service.

At the local, which represents janitors, doormen and elevator operators, he led two citywide strikes of apartment workers.

By fall, that dispute had escalated into citywide strikes to protect, the union said, the contractual rights of teachers.

A great wave of work stoppages in 1933 and 1934 included citywide general strikes and factory occupations by workers.

But when transit workers began a citywide strike on Tuesday morning, the quiet that was long ago banished from the area returned.

Teachers' unions organized a citywide strike that year after the district board, its membership mostly black, tried to transfer several white teachers involuntarily.

"We absolutely cannot live with a citywide strike," he said.

Townspeople observed a citywide strike and shops were shut and the streets deserted.

A citywide strike by cabdrivers was averted.

In 1971, he worked to end a citywide strike by police officers.