since these scumbags with malice and aforethought voted for an illegal strike that punishes innocent riders and businesses... can they now be sued in civil court for damages and be charged under RICO statutes???
Posted on 12/20/2005 1:04:16 PM PST by StatenIsland
Pataki and Bloomberg have little to do with this. the MTA is an independent agency.
You don't believe that, do you?
THE TWU only has 3.5 million in the bank and the union workers will also be losing 2 days per pay per day on strike.
They said the same thing about the ATC union. It doesn't take months to train someone to drive a bus or operate a subway train, it takes a few days.
if the other unions strike, they could shutdown every aspect of the city - including the schools.
that's not to say this is being handled well - I do not understand why they haven't hired every private bus they could find and massed them at collection points in the suburbs where people can park, and load them onto buses that would make 3 or 4 stops in key parts of the city. the HOV4 rules are not working, all the legitimate traffic (with 4 persons) is bottled up behind the checkpoints, so traffic inside the "box" is actually far less then it usually is, so this plan is not allowing for good utilization of surface transport - its all backed up behind the checkpoints.
Me too.
its the maintenance workers who are the key - electricians, people who know how to repair trains, buses, operate the signal and switch plants, etc. the drivers have little to no special skills, its everyone else.
Also, if the unions threaten violence, they become terrorists and ought to be treated as such. The government has a "no negotiations" policy with terrorists.
So why has the union set itself up for financial self-destruction? Do they get more money coming in if better bennies are negotiated?
its generally true - unless they had a stack of cash to toss into the pot, which they don't.
I read on another thread that the TWU only has $3.5 million in the bank. 4 days and they are broke. That is until the fine is forgiven during the caving, I mean negotiations.
MTA is a new york state chartered "public benefit" corporation. So Pataki has some say.
Kalikow and Bloomberg go waaaay back.
There's nobody in this rodeo that isn't connected in one way or another. This isn't some guy playing Norma Rae at a wal-mart in the middle of nowhere. It's NY unions and NY politics.
Not good enough.
It should double daily.
For a sec I thought them New York sumbitches were fining Texas Woman's University in Denton...
since these scumbags with malice and aforethought voted for an illegal strike that punishes innocent riders and businesses... can they now be sued in civil court for damages and be charged under RICO statutes???
Use Reagan's solution. Give 48 hours, and then fire the workers. Then implement a lifetime ban on rehiring those workers.
Many union members with no marketable skills will be terrified. If one union is liquidated, I doubt the others will have the courage to strike as well. After all, they have their own pensions to worry about.
Many union members with no marketable skills will be terrified. If one union is liquidated, I doubt the others will have the courage to strike as well. After all, they have their own pensions to worry about.
Nearly every union in the city will go out. As much as I like quality entertainment, I wouldn't want to see that.
Come on - tell the truth, you just copied and pasted this sentence from some of the Katrina posts that were made about New Orleans several months ago...
I agree - they would all go out. and you would also see private union workers going out on "wildcat" strikes - electricians, manintenance trades of all kinds (elevator repair, etc).
"For a sec I thought them New York sumbitches were fining Texas Woman's University in Denton..."
They're next. We're on a roll...
no, but its the same concept I guess. all these contingency plans - I see no emphasis on greatly expanded use of private buses.
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