By Doug Cunningham

Chicago transit workers have overwhelmingly authorized a strike. The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 241 plans to meet with management Friday to talk about bus scheduling. At issue is "rostering", a change in how transit workers get overtime. Rostering limits overtime to workers who put in more than 40 hours in a week. Without rostering, overtime kicks in if a worker puts in more than 8 hours in a day. A strike of Chicago transit workers would not be illegal as it was in New York City last December when transit workers there went on strike. The Chicago CTA claims the transit union's contracts prohibits a strike.