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"As I'm walking, I hope the are walking Roger Toussaint (the Transport Workers Union leader) to jail," - Peter Johnson, 56, a Columbia College administrator trekking to work along Broadway.
"The people this will hurt the most are the working poor. They can't bear another burden, especially at this festive time of the year."
The New York pension plans are very generous in comparison with other cities. A Citizens Budget Commission study released in April to urge a redesign of retirement benefits for the city's public employees, and that's what this is about. They are costing the city $400m per day. Were it not for the dedication of all the people to get to work every day, the MTA would have far fewer jobs and far fewer benefits.
Including details of their Taylor Law which makes strikes by public employees illegal!!!
You get fined twice your daily wage for every day you spend on strike. Ah - the land of the free!
Mayor forgot the city's not all white everywhere - just on tv
'thugs' racist codeword broke camels back
Yes, there is a just cause. Workers of the world, Unite!!! The trade Unions are indeed the vehicle to the workers' state. Both Marx and Engles agreed to that, along with William Morris. After all , these workers make the wealth and are only seeking to improve their living standards. I hope the move towards electrification happens though, as the pollution of the inturnal gas engines produces too much poison for my liking. Re-tool the entire industrial revolution to wind, tidal, and solar power which transforms to electricity and is more power than can be used by society. No more blackouts. This non-pollution solution is given freely in natures kinder laws and provides work for all and forever more. It would also help if the workers in the TWU were given fifty-one per cent of the ownership in the public company so long and expensive strikes would not be needed . Viva the One Big Union. A workers' world is possible.
The thread of victory has been laid in that the workers and their leadership had the courage to strike for improved conditions and to shut down the largest city in America, proving once again where the real power lays. However , as we found by the TWU-- Telecommunications Workers Union- in Canada just recently. The victory may be short lived if the leadership does not take the collective agreement to the membership for a vote, before calling the strike off. A sure sign of weakness in the union structure is for one leader , who was elected by the membership and therefore is responsible to their democracy for his or her power, if agreement is near that they must renew that sacred trust and only have in the agreement that the membership must vote on the proposed collective agreement before calling the strike off. Apparently there is some constructive criticism going on to Tousaint for not doing so before calling the strike off. Now importantly, the members should call a meeting and discuss the agreement and vote on it to decide if they want it or not, and if the wish to continue the strike or not. Power to the workers-- that way the trade unions become a vehicle to the workers' state as Marx, and Engles forecast at the inception of the industrial revolution.
elite exec.
obviously has forgotteN that the MTA has
a BILLION DOLLAR surplus--
and doesn't know
that many transit union employees
DO NOT get any freebies and
holy horse $hit--- not only are WE walking as well,the sameas THEM --we pay full frigginfare when these same buses and trains are running.
same as the medias full blown SCATLOGY
about a STARTING pay of 55Gs.....
MTA picks the dates for a contract to end...and that's their dateS ,not the union's.
AND PLEEEEEZE--
it's a strike--
not a class struggle.
By a very narrow vote, TWU members have rejected the new contract on offer from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority . What now?
pat c
"In a surprise coup at the ballot box on Friday, New York City transit workers refused to ratify the contract that their leadership negotiated for them in the wake of the three-day pre-Christmas strike, reviving fears that the city may again be paralyzed by a work stoppage.
The margin of defeat was rail-thin. Out of over 22,000 votes cast, there were just seven more nays than yeas. But short of a recount, the contract is dead—a stark reversal of fortunes for Transport Workers Union president Roger Toussaint. During the strike, the former subway car cleaner survived the wrath of millions of nettled commuters just long enough to win some real concessions from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Toussaint faces possible jail time for the strike, not to mention the millions in fines leveled at the union, but he had managed to preserve pensions and lock in pay increases substantial enough to make New York Governor George Pataki wonder aloud if the MTA hadn’t gotten ripped off in its rush to end the strike. "
Full article at link.