Posted on 12/22/2005 6:29:07 AM PST by ElRushbo
just saw a headline come across about a possible resolution-- cnbc reporting annoncement may come shortly...
Time to bust the unions and end this socialism.
I'll tell you who cares (besides us New Yorkers):
1. Other unions across the country who would like to try the same (obnoxious and ridiculous) tactics employed by the TWU. They're waiting to see if the TWU is sucessful or not. Judging from the press conference held yesterday by the union's leadership to cry and moan about the "harsh language" used by the Mayor, and the public outcry for their hanging, the answer is: no.
2. The public relations firms who will now be lining up like Russians on a toilet paper line to help "rehabilitate" the image of NYC Transit workers. Although how you rehabilitate the image of old-style (mostly-) minority communists, with French-style retirement benefits, making $60k to drive a bus is beyond me.
3. The people of the City of New York, who, for better or worse, actually drive the economic engine of the country.
4. The people of the City of New York, some of who are currently having to share rides from licenced bandits in taxis with the great unwashed masses from every third-world sh*thole you can imagine, and being charged $40 to travel two miles or less.
5. The stores, restaurants, theatres and tourist attractions which currently have no clientele during the holiday season (the biggest of the year), and who will have to lay off or fire their staff because of it. That assumes, of course, the staff can actually get to work to begin with.
6. The NYPD which has had to keep officers sleeping in the hallways in the stationhouses during this strike so that they are available to their job of protecting the public. The FDNY, which has done likewise.
Bzzzzzz! You just aren't trying hard enough, FRiend. NYC is the Nation's largest librat bastion. They are getting just what they have promoted.
1) Unions are in a tailspin in this country, FRiend. Illegal strikes by gooberment worker unions at Christmas time is NOT buying them any friends.
2) PR firms??? Mostly New Yawkers. Tuff tookis for them.
3) The people of NYC that truly drive the Nation's economy DON'T use mass transit anyway.
4) & 5) They are New Yawkers; and mostly liberal. They are getting what they have pushed for.
6) Public service means just that; service. I am a cop in my small town. I can tell you that I'd put up with any such hardship when my community needs me most.
Dude, stop painting all of us NYers with such a large brush. You're doing exactly what the liberals are doing when they sneer at "fundies." I expect it from them; I expect better from conservatives.
Like talk show hosts, posters to internet forums can't single out every exception to a rule.
True, there are many fine, upstanding, conservative New Yorkers. Equally true, there are MANY MORE leftist moonbats that would turn us into a communist state if they had their way.
It is a local problem, for locals to solve. I'll say it again: reap what ye have sown.
"(besides the sheeple of NYC, that is)"
Sheeple??? Back to your trailer park Bubba. I've got one prominent figure pointed your way. You want to come to NYC? We have rednecked tourists for breakfast.
Tuff Tookies?? He's dead!
I used to think NYC was all lib. Then I started reading the NY Post. I love that paper.
If the city gives into the union, they're still screwed.
Read the NY Sun. www.nysun.com
I think folks Upstate care. Aren't there a couple of obscure state-wide taxes that go to subsidize the MTA?
Never would have been a strike if the MTA idiot Kalico didn't throw that ridiculous pension demand in the union's face at the last minute.
Holy Cow! Do they really think that sign breeds solidarity? How out of touch.
The rest of New York should have jettisoned the southeastern counties of their state decades ago.
How about this: I live on Staten Island (the Forgotten borough of NYC). There is an $8 toll on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and Staten Islanders are the only New Yorkers who must pay a toll in order to drive home (there are $6 tolls on the New Jersey crossings, as well). Last I heard, only 70 cents actually goes to maintaining the bridge, the rest goes to subsidize mass transit in the suburbs (Metro North and the Long Island Railroad), with a healthy cut for the state and the city, of course.
Staten Islanders who register in order to get a special sticker, or who use EZ Pass, get a discount of almost $4, however, from many parts of this island, the only way to get into Manhattan to go to work is to take an MTA express bus, since train service (Staten Island Rapid Transit, not part of the strike) only runs along the south shore. The Staten Island ferry is, of course, free, but can only be reached via the train or bus, unless you live within walking distance, and helps you not one bit if you work anyplace other than Downtown.
I totally agree with your "I pay taxes, too" point of view, but when viewed in this light, I'd say you have comparatively little to moan about.
I'm all for Upstate seceding and forming a new state. I tell friends in red bits of PA that they could come along with us. The more the merrier :)
In other words, he felt that docking their pay was a more effective strategy.
Now you get an idea of what we Kalifornia FReepers get to put up with; but we tend to catch it on a daily basis...(and usually for good reason)
I'm listening to the John Gambling Show right now.
The "mediation panel" has said that they've recommended that MTA employees come back to work, while they hash out the pension issue.
Supposedly, Toussaint is going to go back to his executive board with this proposal.
They also want a media blackout on negotiations.
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