Posted on 12/22/2005 4:53:12 AM PST by COUNTrecount
December 22, 2005 -- WHILE countless ordinary New Yorkers were trudging home from work in the bitter cold Tuesday night due to the transit strike, Transport Workers Union boss Roger Toussaint and his chaos-causing labor cronies were living the high life at an upscale uptown eatery. Toussaint and his comrades were in a jubilant mood at chichi Harlem Grill, an elegant supper club on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard with gleaming candelabras, antique mirrors and live jazz.
A spywitness tells PAGE SIX's Fernando Gil: "[Toussaint and his party] were there for at least 2 1/2 hours. People kept coming and going all night, but there must have been at least six people at their table at all times.
"They were drinking, eating and joking," the witness relates. "At one point, the owner or manager of the restaurant came over to make sure they'd been taken care of. I heard a man in their group say, 'Do you think they're all going to stay home tomorrow?' and people at the table laughed."
Our source reports that Toussaint, dressed smartly in a suit, chowed down on clay pot snapper. Others at his table devoured grilled salmon, rib-eye steaks and glasses of chardonnay. In an apparent sign of solidarity with the working man, they left a $30 tip on the surprisingly modest $152 check.
Had the trains been running, Toussaint and his cronies could have taken the 1, 2, 3 or C lines to Harlem Grill, but we suspect the large-living labor leader and his fellow revelers were driven to the feast in a comfortable, heated limo.
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That's Pataki's job and he had better do it fast or see his dreams of running for President disappear.
BTTT for your book recommendation!
Small check = homage, payoff, fear, mistake or stupidity.
I thought I was the only one that thought, "She's cute...I think I'll leave her a little extra." Its shallow, but its reality.
Don't forget publicity .
Linda Chavez was actually a union activist with the AFT, back when it was run by Albert Shanker.
He was the one who initiated the process whereby the teaching profession in was transformed from a noble vocation into a union racket.
It got perceptibly worse under his successor, the late Sandra Feldman, and reached its apotheosis under Randi Weingarten, who I'm not even sure has a Master's degree in Education, but is very good at rebuffing legitimate demands for the introduction of a merit pay scale.
Less than 20%? I routinely leave tips better than that - guess I must be a real supporter of the working man...
Well, a friend of mine has always said "Don't tip on tax!". After all, the waiter shouldn't benefit if meals are taxed higher. Also, my friend makes the point that tipping on tax is unfair to those waiters and waitresses in New Hampshire, since there's no tax in NH. (Of course, there is a fairly hefty meals tax in NH, so while I can maybe see his point, his analogy was off).
So a $30 tip on a $152 meal probably was over 20% if you don't tip on tax.
She's benefitting from the money that a PAC the union donates to gave her and keeping her trap shut.
I am convinced that somehow Toussaint is an anagram for
F-ING dirtbag..I am just short a few letters
Roger Toussaint=
A RESTING OURS TO
Rev. Al has got a screw lose.
My bet is that he is an illegal alien, but Bloomberg's policy is that you can't ask that question.
Hopefully this sorry episode will sour New Yorkers on their beloved "unions" once and for all.
Ladyjane,
Please add, was in attendance along with Andrew Young at Mount Eagle(communism classes)fyi.
Leave No Stone Unturned For The Truth,
NSNR-FATD&S
There is no shortage fo Charletons in NY!
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