About 2,700 union delegates voted overwhelmingly last night to recommend approval.
Chairman tells union delegates why the old enemy may be changing its tune.
Both were militant union delegates who stood up for the rights of the workers during the infamous decade (1930-1943).
But some police officers interviewed on the street said they had heard about the slowdown from union delegates.
Though blacks now comprise 11 percent of the force, none serve as elected union delegates.
"We cannot have 10 years of a Tory-led government," one union delegate said.
For the drivers were family men, and so were their union delegates.
Judging from the hostile welcome he received at a union delegates' meeting one recent evening, that will not be easy.
An example, perhaps burnished by memory: union delegates are about to vote on a proposal, considered a done deal.
He also said union delegates would get training on their legal responsibilities.