Posted on 12/20/2005 5:59:07 AM PST by StatenIsland
Fire them all. They will quickly find out how hard it is for a 50 year old man with no marketable skill to find a job making $70K per year.
Fire them, fine them, jail them.
I see the fire and fine them but to jail people simply becuase they go on strike sounds extreme and something more like the communists would do.
This is a free country and they are free to strike and you should be free to fire them.
(2) Blackball them from ever working for the city of NY, the state of NY or the PA of NY/NJ for life.
(3) Take their pensions away and use the funds to provide rebates on service to commuters.
(4) Arrest all of them, fingerprint all of them, process all of them.
(4) Fine them heavily.
(5) Indict the union leaders on conspiracy charges, convict them and incarcerate them.
(6) Arrest saboteurs and indict them on federal terrorism charges.
(7) Since there are more than three times as many people who have passed the transit exam and are on the waiting list to work for the TA as there are actually working for the TA, hire the best of them immediately.
(8) Pass a law banning transit workers from ever again engaging in the criminal conspiracy known as a union.
Walk
Wrong. They broke the law. Law enforcement is not "communist".
They are not "free to strike" - the law in this matter is quite clear and unambiguous.
The long-run solution: more automated systems!
Softy! You left out setting their families on fire.
These are public sector workers who shouldn't even be unionized in the first place!
The founder of this union was jailed for contempt for precisely this reason under the Condin-Wadlin Act, a much harsher-but equally ineffective-antecedent to the Taylor Law.
These people exercise a monopoly.
This is not the same as private enterprise.
What Reagan did to those scumbag air traffic controllers was absolutely brilliant and it should be SOP for dealing with the legalized mafias known as unions.
They are not free to strike. It's against the NY Taylor law.
Thanks. I was unaware of the law and have been updated by a previous post.
I guess since it appears to be against the law, what will the mayor do?
Trying to file an injunctions to force them to strike. Massive fines.
from the slimes
The state's Taylor Law bars strikes by public employees and carries penalties of two days' pay for each day on strike, but the transit union decided it was worth risking the substantial fines to continue the fight for what it regards as an acceptable contract.
Mr. Kalikow said the authority and the state attorney general would go to state court to seek a contempt citation against the union. Last week, a state judge issued an injunction barring the transit workers from striking under the Taylor Law.
BINGO!!! We have a winner....
Bloomberg should set up firing squads.
My impression of NYC is a very liberal town the enjoys raising taxes on everyone for more government controlled services so is there really any surprise that this strike by government hacks happened and NYC gets what it deserves?
I also think your republican mayor does not have the backbone nor the political will to fire anyone.
It is basically government hacks that elect other hacks to be in office?
What part of it's illegal to strike don't you understand !!
The victims here are not so much NYC residents and voters but the millions of commuters from upstate NY, CT, NJ and PA who are being victimized.
I also think your republican mayor does not have the backbone nor the political will to fire anyone.
Bloomberg worked on Wall Street and as a private business owner for decades. Trust me, he has no qualms in firing anyone if the cost/benefit analysis is in his favor.
It is basically government hacks that elect other hacks to be in office?
Part of Bloomberg's appeal was that he had never worked in the public sector before he became mayor of NYC.
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